Pro-tem speaker

Out of proportion

• Apropos of Arun Jaitley’s ‘Governor, not House, under Challenge’ (March 16), with due regards to the sincerity and integrity of the Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, he needs to realise that the apex court’s ruling on Jharkhand has been misread and blown out of all proportions. It was the court’s attempt to check any unconstitutional conduct of the governor and at no point of time has the court appeared to overstep its jurisdiction.

— Ved Guliani Hisar

Democracy’s future

• Recent developments in Jharkhand and Goa make Indians worry about future of democracy. Our polity has become so unconcerned about democratic values that the struggle for power has become the end of its existence. All democratic institutions have become so vulnerable that the collapse of whole structure is likely. The Supreme Court’s intervention in the Jharkhand matter set things right but the courts cannot take all the responsibility for protecting democracy on their shoulders and render other institutions redundant.

— Arvind Naik Pune

Not in TV studios

• Apropos of your editorial, ‘Fellowship of the ring’ (IE, March 10), it makes the perfectly valid point that the site for debating and agreeing upon guidelines for procedures for votes of confidence must be Parliament, not TV studios. If Parliament does not perform its duty then perforce the Supreme Court has to do so. Parliament must therefore reclaim lost ground and re-emerge as the forum where constitutional issues are debated and decided.

— Vinod Chowdhury Delhi

Shakti episode

• I Agree with Bhawana Sommaya (‘Stinging Shakti Kapoor for news’, IE, March 16). When a girl called someone so many times, behaves seductively, she can’t have expectations of spirituality. We all know about the casting couch phenomenon. But when someone from within the industry reveals what is going on, it does have a ring of credibility to it.

— Siva Ram Abu Dhabi