Universal justice

8226; The editorial, 8216;A sad judgment8217; IE, January 14 very correctly highlighted the irony of the vi...

8226; The editorial, 8216;A sad judgment8217; IE, January 14 very correctly highlighted the irony of the victims of the Gujarat violence being branded as biased due to the unhealthy influence of traitors and anti-social elements. You have aptly called it a sad judgement . If persons who have come out to uphold justice are called traitors and anti-social elements then India will cease to be a civilised nation. The honourable judges of the Gujarat High Court have not addressed the grave unjustice done to victims of violence by highlighting instead the cause of their own reputation and using it as a pretext to uphold the order of the lower court. I do not want to comment on the high court verdict, as that is the duty of the Supreme Court, but I must point out with due respect to the honourable judges that the cause of universal justice is more important than that of individuals holding exalted positions in society.

8212; A.I. Nomani On e-mail

8226; The Gujarat High Court judgement will be appreciated by all nationalistic Hindus 8216;A sad judgment8217;, IE, January 14. What action has the Supreme Court taken to book the culprits who massacred Sikhs in Delhi in 1984? Or those responsible for the Bombay blasts?

8212; C.R. Gupta On e-mail

More, more

8226; In a democracy that is already tainted with party systems, why should we seek an electoral battlefront of only two parties 8216;Setting the chessboard8217;, IE, January 13. The more the merrier, I say. I wonder why there is a desire to have a two-party system? Is it because it is so in the West? A perfect mosiac is never duo-toned. In any case, our nation is multi-faceted. Oneness in the manyness is our culture and tradition. Why should we strive to change that?

8212; Narayana On e-mail

SAARC8217;s different

8226; The recently concluded SAARC summit held at Islamabad has raised more hype than actual progress in view of proposal for a common currency for the seven South Asian countries made by Prime Minister Vajpayee. Quite often, the examples of the EU and ASEAN are mentioned in this connection. But the situation here is quite different from that of the EU, since it has been beset with a number of problems for the last two decades, when this idea was mooted by the then Bangladesh President Ziaur Rehman. The stumbling block is that, unlike the EU or the ASEAN, India was divided on the basis of the two-nation theory and Pakistan continues to have the same mindset.

8212; V. Sagar Delhi

Thanks to Sonia

8226; Apropos the piece, 8216;Taking on Teflon Vajpayee8217; IE, January 14, most of Vajpayee8217;s strengths are due to the inability of the opposition8217;s leader to exploit his weaknesses. Sonia Gandhi8217;s statements against the government invariably sound childish and out of place.

8212; Sushil Johar On e-mail

A cop out

8226; Heaven knows how much money Daler Mehendi has spent on these police officers, who are suddenly singing another tune 8216;Police cooked up Daler charges8230;8217;, IE, January 13. Now they are beginning to eat their earlier words. No wonder they have come out of this incident looking stupid for letting him go. But they should not believe that the public is equally stupid as to believe them. God save us from a police force like this!

8212; Saurav On e-mail