Opinion Sena hypocrisy
Does the Shiv Sena have a moral right to oppose Australian cricketers playing on Indian soil to protest attacks on Indians in Australia?....
Does the Shiv Sena have a moral right to oppose Australian cricketers playing on Indian soil to protest attacks on Indians in Australia? These attacks may partly be because local Australians feel Indians are taking away their jobs in a recession. Likewise,the Shiv Sena chases away other Indians from Maharashtra,because they are convinced that these immigrants are taking away jobs that rightly belong to the Marathi manoos. When they oppose Indians working on the Indian soil of Maharashtra,the Shiv Sena have little grounds to criticise Australians. Attacks,whether abroad or here,should be strongly condemned,but when the Shiv Sena does so,it smacks of opportunism.
Shireen Bharucha
Stop the thugs
You have rightly observed that The Senas derive an inflated sense of power by their rumoured capacity to disrupt a targets legitimate business (Fauji vs Sena,IE,February 4). How many icons can the thugs take on? Mumbai belongs as much to all Indians as all of India belongs to every Mumbaikar. The nations financial capital cant be left at the mercy of the Senas whose only contribution is bullying hapless labourers and using invectives against dissenting voices. Mumbai cant be left to be held to ransom by a few lunatics,and Shah Rukh Khan doesnt need to apologise for no mistake of his. The Thackerays need to apologise to the nation for their undemocratic demands and for threatening to suppress free voices.
Manzar Imam
New Delhi
Fact check
This refers to the emotional outburst of Gul Panag in her article Kudos to Shah Rukh Khan (IE,February 5). But she has got a few facts wrong which I would like to point out. She states that there is no problem in Delhi due to the influx of migrants. To the best of my knowledge,the chief minister of Delhi has cited this as a major problem at least four times. Problems between locals and migrants have started building up in Punjab as well. Panag proclaims that platforms like Twitter and Facebook are empowering the average citizen. I would like to enlighten her that nothing can replace the print media. The print media fought against the imperial rule of the British and the unlawful Emergency. No such mass movement has been with the new platforms.
Sunil Kumar
New Delhi
An indiscretion
This refers to the editorial Radical agent (IE,February 5). Why did Digvijay Singh keep quiet for so long before calling for a probe into the Batla House encounter? Where was he when the government honoured the cops involved in the encounter? It is disgusting to find the general secretary and a senior leader of the party leading the Union government indulging into worst kind of vote-bank politics. Singhs has compromised public perceptions of the governments fight against terror.
M.C. Joshi
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