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Journalism of Courage
8226; It8217;s indeed laudable on the part of the Indian Express to have taken a lead in providing assistance to establishing a war memorial at Chandigarh 8216;In Chandigarh today, they start building a shrine8217;, IE, June 11. It is hoped that it will stay well-maintained and not go the way of most other such memorials 8212; thanks to poor maintenance. The high standards of the Arlington cemetery in the US may be taken as a model worth emulating. Such initiatives are bound to improve awareness about the defence forces, provided they are backed by modern audio-visual aids to make the theme interesting. Such presentations could incorporate subtle lessons emphasising discipline, accountability, perseverance, and so on 8212; elements that are essential in any mature society.
8212; Col R.P. Chaturvedi Noida
A plan for Siachen
8226; The report, 8216;Make Siachen a peace zone: PM from glacier8217; IE, June 13, sounds good but the PM has not presented any ideas on how to achieve this. The Maitri II base facility should be built on Siachen to provide another place for research on extreme climates besides the Maitri on Antarctica. India could make the research facility available to scientists and researchers from all Antarctica base station nations. The transit camp for Maitri II should be named Abdul Momand camp after the first Afghan in space.
8212; Arun Khanna Indianapolis
Bangalore8217;s base
8226; All Indians need to thank Thomas Friedman, for his unfailing optimism about our sad country progress in software 8216;Beijing or Bangalore? The race hots up8217;, IE, June 10. The government is a dead horse. It is never going to stir. The Indian government talks of roads, China builds them. China is determined to get ahead and to hell with the price. The namby-pamby government in India talks about social justice, unable however to deliver it.
8212; Lalit Bagai Kalundborg
8226; Friedman8217;s positioning of India relative to China is a hopeful and optimistic one, coming as it does with an outsider8217;s perspective. Indian professionals and techies would like to see it the same way. The biggest obstacle to this development is the lack of the same determination to move ahead in the area of public works read infrastructure as is growingly evident in the information technology sector.
8212; Giri Girishankar On e-mail
Come clean, Tiger
8226; By trying to come up with lame excuses to evade punishment in the deer poaching tangle, Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi is only tarnishing his reputation of being a responsible and respectable citizen 8216;It8217;s not cricket8217;, IE, June 10. As a veteran citizen, it should be very clear to him that the country8217;s law is the same for one and all. If he is really guilty of the serious offence of killing an animal belonging to an endangered species, he should have the courage to face the legal consequences of such action.
8212; Arjun Chaudhuri Kolkata
BJP needs Advani
8226; Although L.K. Advani8217;s eulogy of Jinnah as a 8216;secular gentleman8217; is quite contrary to his party8217;s ideology, the top brass in his party did not want to accept his resignation for obvious reasons: the BJP would have definitely disintegrated without him 8216;Day after, RSS chief8217;s swipe: like prostitutes change clothes, politicians change stands8217;, IE, June 12.
8212; Jayant Ratnakar Cannanore
