Opinion Peoples dictation
Most dictators love their country and people,but often in a perverted way.
Peoples dictation
Most dictators love their country and people,but often in a perverted way (Gaddafi unplugged,IE,February 24). Muammar Gaddafi seems to be an exception. His insistence on holding on and the reported use of mercenaries is the first of its kind in the wave of largely peaceful revolutions sweeping across Arab nations. Blaming a foreign hand behind the peoples movement is the last trick on his cards. This is no Cold War superpower rivalry era. Dictators should realise it is people who make up the nation and not rhetoric.
Robert Lhungdim
Sound and fury
This refers to Thomas L. Friedmans The things we do for oil (IE,February 24). Friedman makes a bold appraisal of the mess that is the Middle East run by autocrats,largely with the blessings of America and Europe. Of course,they are largely guided by their interests of ensuring an uninterrupted supply of oil,besides securing the existential interests of
Israel. Didnt the US look the other way when Libya,under Gaddafi,financed the Islamic bomb? The Wests professions of democracy are simply sound and fury,as far as the Middle East is concerned. Now,the
Libyan leader is revealing his true colours. The question now is who will save Libyans from his possible brutalities?
Prasad Malladi
Nidadavole
Celebrating status
The granting of minority status by the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions to Delhis Jamia Millia Islamia University is an occasion to celebrate (Green light for minority status to Jamia Millia,IE,February 23). Freedom fighters like Maulana Mahmood Hasan,Dr Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari,Hakim Ajmal Khan and others had founded the institution for the educational uplift of Muslims responding to Mahatma Gandhis call to boycott educational institutions supported or run by the colonial regime. This will give the largest minority in India a sense of relief as well as belonging.
Manzar Imam
New Delhi
Twos a crowd?
The government has agreed to a JPC probe (UPA eats its winter words for JPC spring,IE,February 24). The logjam over the functioning of Parliament is finally over. There are,however,some unanswered questions. One,how will the JPC probe and the CBI probe square up? Suppose the reports of both differ in conclusion,which one will take precedence? Two,will the timeframes be different? Will one probe wait for the others result? If both go on for years,as has been the nature of such probes,how wise is it to spend time on one or
the other?
R.J. Khurana
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