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Journalism of Courage
8226;
The story on the judges of the Punjab and Haryana high court going
on mass leave in protest against the chief justice of the high court
questioning the free membership given to two serving judges to a
very prestigious and expensive golf club at Chandigarh was an eye-opener
IE, April 20. In a similar vein, it is a pity that senior members
in the bureaucracy have turned a blind eye to the arm twisting by
the IAS lobby in wangling free memberships to the Delhi Golf Club
for as many as 175 serving officers during their postings at Delhi.
The other services 8212; the police, the central administration, and
the judiciary 8212; have also been included in this free bonanza. Incidentally,
the membership to the Delhi Golf Club, where there is a waiting
period of several years, costs a sum in six figures. It8217;s a pity
that in the entire administration at the Centre, there was, or is,
not one senior bureaucrat vigilant enough, like the chief justice
of the state, to question this blatant misuse of office for personal
gain.
8212;Kaly Bose
Gurgaon
This talk
of growth
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With the elections, the terms 8220;economic growth8221; and 8220;development8221;
are bandied about. Though growth and development are used interchangeably,
these are two distinct phenomena. Economic growth means more output;
while economic development primarily needs more output as well as
changes in the technical and institutional arrangements of the production
and allocation of inputs by sectors 8216;The poverty of election chatter8217;,
IE, April 16.
The process of economic growth cannot be sustained for long unless
it increases the productivity of labour. Besides there must be optimum
utilisation of this increase in the flow of material goods and services,
or the process of growth would get obstructed by market limitations.
The term 8220;feel good8221; ab initio brings 8220;welfare8221; to mind. However,
even when there is an increase in economic growth and development,
there may not be a change in the welfare of the masses. It is therefore
indispensable that the welfare of the masses should be the goal
of every state.
8212; D.K. Gupta
Noida
Apologies
to Sikhs
8226;
At least once a week, in some form or another, the matter of the
killings of the Sikhs after the murder of Indira Gandhi is publicised
in one form or another 8216;1984 riots: R K Anand says he8217;s sorry,
recalls 25 yrs ago, Gurbani helped start his car!8217;, IE, April 19.
Either the Akalis take up this matter to deflect attention from
their own corruption or the BJP uses it as another weapon to attack
Sonia Gandhi with. This nonsense has been going on for 20 years.
Has any Sikh apologised to the Hindus for the murder of Indira Gandhi,
the greatest Indian in the last 1,200 years? After all what was
her fault. She was trying to save India from disintegration. After
the action she took, not many will be foolish enough to play with
India8217;s unity.
8212;Brinder
Sharma On e-mail
Note this,
please
8226;
As the issue of foreign origin is presumably about to take the shape
of law, the new government should also bring in a new law preventing
people from becoming PM more than twice and also restrict the number
of terms an MP can win. New blood wipes out old corruption.
8212;Emmanuel
D8217;Souza On e-mail
