Opinion Small is better
The Telangana crisis is an opportunity for another reorganisation of states.
• The Telangana crisis is an opportunity for another reorganisation of states.
We need smaller states since many of our present states are bigger than many countries. This will strengthen the Union government as many big states have disproportionate representation at the Centre.
Also,the population of cities like Mumbai and Kolkata is exceeded by those of only a few countries. Big states were fine in the early years after independence.
We can easily have 50 states now,each with a population of about 20 million,including 10 city states such as Mumbai,Delhi,Kolkata,Chennai,Bangalore,Hyderabad,etc. Further,larger states like Rajasthan,UP,Andhra,Karnataka,etc can be divided into smaller states. Each state will send 15 MPs,making a total of 750. The extra 200 can be compensated for by abolishing the Rajya Sabha.
T.R. Ramaswami
Mumbai
Solve Andhra
• The politics of Telangana may result in an unmanageable law and order situation that might go out of control. Despite the damage to public property and the continuous fast by TRS chief K.C. Rao,the Union government is yet to wake up and look into the Andhra issue.
The government should open its eyes to the recent developments in Andhra that can ignite fires in other places,where territorial issues need sustainable solutions in the interest of the people.
Syed Khaja
New Delhi
Get the bill right
• This refers to the editorial Article 356 lite?. Communal violence has plagued the Indian polity time and again.
Interest groups propagate hatred and try to create chaos in society. The failure of governance when confronted by communal violence creates misery for ordinary citizens.
Policy-makers have to display courage and make the communal violence bill a potent weapon and not play politics. Communal violence causes agony to those who are supposed to be led by these leaders.
Sandeep Krishan
Abohar
Making news
• Those who sell their newspaper space to be used for publicity in the garb of news,treat their paper as a commercial product rather than as an instrument in the process of informed communication to their readers.
Still,in the long run,these papers lose their credibility and their readership becomes confined to a vulnerable reading mass.
Y.G. Chouksey
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