The corruption game

• Apropos of your editorial ‘The past kicks back’ (IE, February 6), the truth of t...

• Apropos of your editorial ‘The past kicks back’ (IE, February 6), the truth of the matter is that a huge bribe was paid by the Swedish firm to obtain the contract. The then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi had to be part of the arrangement to get such a huge defense deal approved. Subsequent Congress governments stalled the investigations and may have destroyed the evidence to protect Rajiv Gandhi. It’s unfortunate that such a damaging criminal case is treated as a political game, delayed, and destroyed. This is bad for the Indian criminal system. It means the high and mighty will always be protected.

— Rameshwar Singh On e-mail

• Justice Kapoor’s strong strictures against the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Bofors case are absolutely deserved. People want to know how much money the government spent for the CBI to malign an political opponent who was more clean than many others. Actually, the CBI is used as a political tool by the government. Law Minister Arun Jaitley has said in Rajya Sabha that the CBI may go to the Supreme Court against the Delhi High Court’s clean chit to Rajiv. The same Arun Jaitley reportedly urged the CBI to go slow on Mayawati’s arrest because the BSP vote is crucial in the coming election.

— Bidyut K. Chatterjee Faridabad

National security?

• This refers to your report ‘Official for the first time: Rao backed off nuclear tests after Clinton called’ (IE, February 6). It is indeed disgraceful that as prime minister, Narasimha Rao backed off from conducting nuclear tests after then US President Clinton talked to him, thus sacrificing national security, and also showing that he was a weak prime minister. India must match the US in nuclear might for future security. Pakistan and China are issues of lesser importance.

— Krishna Prasad On e-mail

Merry Mani

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• Articles by Mani Shankar Aiyar should carry a statutory warning. It should say: “Readers are warned of severe stomach-ache as side effect while reading this column. This is purely unintentional, but natural as the writer displays remarkable consistency for humour which makes it very difficult for readers of his ‘serious articles’ to stop laughing out loud’’.

— B.M. Bharadwaja On e-mail

Subcontinental drift

• Now that the skeletons are out of the cupboard, A.Q. Khan has been sacrificed to save the ISI in Pakistan. The current proliferation drama in Pakistan is pathetic. It is matched only by India’s ludicrous courtroom dramas prosecuting and exonerating politicians on flimsy pretexts. Much as we smirk at our neighbours, our own record gives them enough counter-ammunition.

— Raamesh On e-mail

Can’t fool us

• The US turned a blind eye to terrorism and reaped its windfall with 9/11. Now they will wake up only after something drastic happens again. Till then, Musharraf can do no wrong. But the rest of the world knows. We are not fooled.

— K. Shyam Prasad On e-mail

Premji said that Wipro would partner with the Government "to find a lasting solution for Bengaluru's mobility challenges".

Wipro rejects Karnataka Govt request to allow public vehicles inside Sarjapur campus

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Wipro, a leading company in Bengaluru, has refused to allow public vehicles inside its Sarjapur campus to ease traffic congestion. However, they have agreed to finance a study to find a solution for the traffic problem. The founder, Azim Premji, believes that the issue is complex and requires expert analysis. Wipro has also committed to funding a significant portion of the study's cost.

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