Prize matters

• The giving and receiving of such awards is nothing but a mutual backscratching exercise since the reporting does not trace the background of the causes of the riots. It concentrates on the aftermath of the Godhra carnage exclusively. The story is totally one sided, blaming the BJP or Narendra Modi alone.

— J. Badsha On e-mail

• I’m honoured as an ardent reader of your paper. The paper truly practices a “Journalism of Courage” in the way it has exposed the morbidity and the horror of the violence in Gujarat. The Express deserved another award for the expose of the Satyendra Dubey murder case. Through your paper, each and every week we get to know about the many misdeeds of those in public life. Keep it up.

— Bidyut K. Chatterjee Faridabad

Hutton for India

• Your reporting on the India-Pakistan tour has been balanced. Right from the start of this story, a section of the press has been publishing unfounded statements, suggesting the home ministry is against it, it will be after elections, will be curtailed, will be on a neutral venue etc. Even after a rebuttal by government, they are still writing about a curtailed tour, some players not joining etc. The press should not try to manipulate facts for supporting its own opinions and inferences. Perhaps we need a Hutton Commission of our own.

— Ravinder Singh On e-mail

How can India go?

• This refers to your headline ‘Go India’ (IE, February 15). But how can Indian cricketers play their natural game with the security threat mounting? Even if militant groups assure that Indian cricketers will not be harmed, there may be anti-peace forces which could damage. Attacks on Pakistan’s president are proof of Pakistan’s being incapable of providing adequate security to Indian cricketers.

— Madhu Agrawal Delhi

Braveheart

• Your report regarding the anguished resignation of Shailendra Singh, DSP, Special Task Force, Uttar Pradesh Police from his post, allegedly due to political pressures on his crusade against powerful criminals in eastern UP, (IE, February 13), was saddening and instructive. It is inspiring to know there are bravehearts still in our police force who would put their career as well as security at risk in order to fight the menace of criminalised politics. But the silence of the intelligentsia against the blatant protection granted by the political class to known criminals is tragic. The rule of law is the basis of all culture and development in a modern nation. We hope the UP governor will not accept the resignation of this exemplary officer.

— Poonam Mishra, Anil Chawda and Ayesha Begum Delhi