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Journalism of Courage
No amount of force can suppress the northeastern people8217;s emotional longing for respect. They have lost faith in the various central governments. They feel that India is treating their states as fiefdoms. The fact that India is yet to be emotionally integrated is swept under the mat. What is needed is not more force but a sympathetic understanding of the needs and aspirations of these forgotten people. The brutish behaviour of the Indian army aggravates the problem.
8212; N.S.S. Sarma Kurnool
No, skipper
8226; Indian skipper Saurav Ganguli has not been assessed as he should. In the recent tournament in Sri Lanka, he misread the pitch and did not include leg spinner Kumble in the side. He did not score, which he has not done in critical situations for several series now. There was no game plan.
8212; Talakshi Gala On e-mail
Negative agenda
8226; Prakash Karat is justified in condemning disruption of parliamentary proceedings by the BJP and its alliance partners. I wonder why this wisdom did not dawn on Karat when his party, the Congress and allied parties indulged in similar tactics while they were in Opposition. Also, Karat should tell the public the norms for branding a particular party, organisation or individual as 8216;8216;communal8217;8217;. This clarification is needed since parties like the IUML, MIM and Kerala Congress have being treated as secular by these self-styled champions of secularism. Except for not allowing the BJP to come to power, do these champions of democracy have a positive agenda to offer to the electorate? Right from 1977 the verdict has been a negative vote for the party/parties in power or a sympathy wave, but, unfortunately not in favour of any party or parties.
8212; K.R.P. Gupta Mumbai
Two Indias
8226; I read Shekhar Gupta8217;s interview with Nandan Nilekani IE, July 20 wherein he argues that it is important for companies to give back to this country what they have taken. He has rightly used the US as an example. In India, the divide between the rich and poor is very wide basically because people are using up the resources and don8217;t bother to replenish them. On the one hand, we have flourishing software and service industries and on the other, we have people for whom higher education seems completely out of reach.
8212; Sujatha Mumbai
Silly idea
8226; The idea of allowing people to caste a 8216;negative vote8217; is silly 8216;Stains on the system8217; IE, August 2. If the courts cannot take a decision about the eligibility of a person to stand for election based on his character and behaviour, why should the people be asked to decide that? If the law of the land cannot prove a person8217;s crime, then he or she should be allowed to contest the elections and have the same right to be selected by the voting public as any other candidate! We would be better off fighting for an improved criminal justice system instead.
8212; R. Srivatsan On e-mail
