‘The president should act’

• The report ‘‘Guardian angel Dubey in this remote classroom’’ (January 1) read well but I doubt ‘‘less ...

• The report ‘‘Guardian angel Dubey in this remote classroom’’ (January 1) read well but I doubt ‘‘less than 0.5 per cent of those who qualify for the (IIT) JEE are from Bihar’’. I am in IIT Kharagpur. In my batch itself, there are around 100 students from Bihar.

It’s true that Bihar is economically backward, that the security situation is bad. But that doesn’t mean its people are not capable of getting to the top. I have been to many places and been subjected to humiliation because I come from Bihar. This is not on.

Ankit

• I graduated from IIT Kanpur a few years before Satyendra Dubey. I did not know him personally, but his face could have been that of many of my classmates. The values and ethics IIT worked to instill in us reached their finest flower in Satyendra.

Rest in peace, Satyendra. You will not be forgotten.

Vikas Kapur

• I have gone through the full-page advertisements on the Dubey case released by Union Ministry of Surface Transport and by the Bihar government. Each blames the other and shirks responsibility.

If the central government feels a major project is being delayed due to the law and order situation in the state, it should consider president’s rule. If the state government feels the project is necessary for Bihar’s prosperity, it should cooperate by checking criminal gangs. But it seems both parties have developed a vested interest in the loot.

Shalil Ghosh

• In the medieval ages, a king used to sacrifice a young boy or child and bury the body in the foundations of a new fort. The belief was the fort would be invincible. Satyendra Dubey is the sacrifice for the Golden Quadrilateral.

Prabhat S. Vaidya

• There is no point in just talking. Perhaps a direct intervention from the president is needed in the Dubey case.

Raj

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• There is no mechanism to monitor the entry of criminals into politics. But the Dubey episode presents an opportunity. The media can publish a partywise list of politicians giving details of their bad deeds and growth in assets over the past, say, five years.

Lal Singh

• Too much emphasis is being placed on the Dubey murder case. This is politically motivated, since he was killed in Bihar.

There are many more heart-wrenching stories — such as that of the AIR director-general, kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir and later killed by terrorists because the government did not meet their demand.

Also too much is being made of Dubey’s IIT background.

J.B. Padhi

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• After Dubey’s murder, all honest and upright people — a minuscule number anyway — would probably change their line of thinking, flow with the tide rather than confront the corrupt.

What Dubey got for his honesty is there for all to see — a bullet in the body.

A. Vishwanath Srikant