Opinion Dreams of calm
Scenes of stone-pelting youth taking on security personnel and the police on the streets is an indication of the disappointment and disenchantment of the younger generation in Kashmir.
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Scenes of stone-pelting youth taking on security personnel and the police on the streets is an indication of the disappointment and disenchantment of the younger generation in Kashmir. The Paradise on Earth has virtually turned into a hellish quagmire with the beauty and serenity of the region in shambles. Considering our penchant for holding our neighbours responsible for all the unrest in the Valley,it needs to be said that new forms of protest emerging in Kashmir demonstrate the resentment of the youth against the cold-shouldering of their problems by the establishment. Its rightly said that normal life in Kashmir is not normal as it is in any other part of the country.
Pachu Menon
Goa
Hunting habits
This refers to the editorial Resistance is futile (IE,September 3). The health ministrys actions are ominous as these can set a dangerous precedent. The question isnt just about whos right and whos wrong. Its about freedom of speech,even when its against the purported interests of the system. Restrict one scientist here,silence one journalist there,and soon we have on our hands a compulsive and neurotic habit and an obsessive fear of critical comment. Besides,its not just an opinion thats in question here. The matter is one of professional integrity. To put in bureaucratic hurdles in clinical research will result in the stagnation of ideas. The health ministry in its efforts to protect the medical industry in the short run will end up doing it more harm. This witch hunt has to stop.
Gurpreet S. Goraya
Mohali
Cloning North Korea?
K. Subrahmanyams resume of Communist Chinas shenanigans in Pakistan,in its expansionist surge,is no revelation (Pakistan: Chinas other North Korea,IE,September 3). Its brought Pakistan,like North Korea,in its loop so that once the US retreats from West Asia it would take its place as a new hegemon. Both Pakistan and China need one another and their symbiotic relationship would create innumerable problems for India. China will use its economic might to optimum effect. What North Korea is to China in the Pacific,Pakistan will be in its westward expansion for the goodies of oil,gas and other resources,besides the geostrategic gain,to neutralise any new competitor. The ball is now in Indias court.
John Alexander
Nagpur
The rotten ones
Your front page report 4 Indian wrestlers and short-putter test positive,out of CWG (IE,September 3) made for sad reading. This news is as shameful and shocking as the spot-fixing allegations against Pakistani cricketers. Some sportspersons use illegal means to make money while others use illegal substances to win medals and fame. Both deserve severe punishment so that it acts as a lesson for others. The spirit of competition is as important as the result.
S.N. Kabra
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