Opinion Blinding the law
I was surprised,indeed pained,to read the report If you lock up businessmen,will investment come: Law Minister
Blinding the law
* I was surprised,indeed pained,to read the report If you lock up businessmen,will investment come: Law Minister (IE,October 10). Would Salman Khurshid like the judiciary to look the other way when businessmen are involved in malpractices and irregularities,so that the investment flow to the country is not affected? The minister should instead be worrying about the UPAs misgovernance,drift and lack of decision-making.
M. Ratan,New Delhi
Step up
* This refers to the editorial Telangana questions (IE,October 10). The dithering in the Congress is evident. Till now,the party has not articulated to the people the merits and demerits of the creation of a Telangana state or initiated a discussion in this regard in Andhra Pradesh. Andhra has been held up for close to a month by agitations,and this cannot go on. The Centre should step up.
Prasad Malladi,Nidadavole
Nobel path
* The Nobel peace prize has been won by three women this year Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf,who is Africas first female elected head of state,her compatriot and peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakul Karman of Yemen. They have won the peace Nobel for promoting womens rights and freedom. It is a moment for all women to rejoice in. Karmans work especially is an answer to the Wests prejudices about Muslim women. Meanwhile,Muslims around the world should look up to Karman as an exemplar and encourage their daughters to learn and work and move towards gender equality and empowerment.
Syed Khaja,New Delhi
Its all politics
* Tavleen Singhs The economy,not Anna (IE,October 9) rightly castigates Anna Hazare and his team for the needless turmoil that they created across the country not too long ago. As the writer has pointed out,many thinking Indians have,by now,come to realise that the agitation was not an innocent movement and had undercurrents of political ambitions,which are now becoming apparent in the run-up to the Hisar poll where Team Anna has openly spoken out against the Congress.
M.K. Bajaj,Zirakpur
Corruption & cure
* Jaswant Singh agrees with what Dr Manmohan Singh once said that corruption is a disease of the society,not so much a disease only of the political functionaries (Idea Exchange,IE,October 9). But Singhs assertion that the cure for corruption is not in laws or institutions but in examples of leadership is partly problematic. Leaders cannot absolve themselves of corruption in the system by claiming that they themselves are personally honest. They are also obligated to devise ways to remove corruption from society. Exemplary character is,no doubt,a precondition.
Satwant Singh Kalkat,Ludhiana
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