Opinion Counsel for ministers
In this backdrop,PM Manmohan Singhs declaration that UPA will serve its full term is pitifully inadequate.
Counsel for ministers
The article Yes ministers (IE,September 28) is a strong and timely condemnation of the pusillanimity shown by both bureaucrats and ministers in taking an honest and principled stand on their respective roles in the events that led up to the 2G scam. In this backdrop,PM Manmohan Singhs declaration that UPA will serve its full term is pitifully inadequate.
R.P. Subramanian
New Delhi
It was heartening to see an independent commentator like Pratap Bhanu Mehta pointing out that the main source of P. Chidambarams problem is,in fact,Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. How will Dr Singh defend himself from the sharp indictments: that the prime minister has distorted the entire structure of ministerial politics by not frontally owning and defending the decision not to auction 2G and that the resultant mess is primarily due to the PMs tendency to protect himself by distancing from all decisions?
M. Ratan
New Delhi
Wrong message
The limit imposed by TRAI on text messages is ridiculous (TRAI again,IE,September 28). A curb on unsolicited text messages is indeed welcome,but this is not the way to go about it. Texting is a cheap and popular mode of communication,and people should be free to send as many messages as they like. The SMS service is used by educational institutions to pass on information to students,by broking firms to give tips to their clients,by banks to communicate details of transactions to their customers and so on. Such a vital mode of communication should not be checked.
S.N. Kabra
Apropos the editorial TRAI again,the limit imposed on the number of text messages is a classic example of the remedy being worse than the disease. Many subscribers would be thinking that it is better to delete spam messages than to suffer a cap on the number of messages they can send.
Kishor Kulkarni
Mumbai
In the line of ire
The latest round of slam-fest between the US and Pakistan leaves India in a precarious position (Brinkmanship,IE,September 27).The message coming out of Afghanistan,after the assassination of former president Burhanuddin Rabbani and the attacks on the NATO headquarters and the US embassy,is that the peace deal being brokered in Afghanistan is hardly that. The draw-down of US troops by 2014 may jeopardise Indias interests and its developmental agenda. Add to that Chinas looming presence in the scene,and the future looks bleak. Indias task is cut out. It has to beef up its security apparatus to meet the heightened threats both internally and in Afghanistan.
Sourav Roy Barman
Agartala
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