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Your editorial Sign and forward (IE,November 5) is strange and disappointing. You are wrong in saying that those who are campaigning for Kiran Bedi....
Your editorial Sign and forward (IE,November 5) is strange and disappointing. You are wrong in saying that those who are campaigning for Kiran Bedi,dont understand how democracy works. We do. But is ours a democracy in the real sense? Had it been so,there would have been no need to intervene. We all know that nepotism and political considerations form the basis of key appointments by the government. If thinking minds concerned about the worrisome state of affairs in our system have opted to raise their voice for appointment of a person of unimpeachable integrity to the key post of CIC,it augurs well for our system and for our democracy. The initiative needs to be applauded rather than criticised.
M.C. Joshi Lucknow
Duties shared
In his address at the 30th general session of the Jamiat Ulama-i-hind,Home Minister Chidambaram has propounded a theory which needs to be rebutted. He says that it is a duty of the majority to protect the minority. He does not seem to realize that under the Constitution all citizens are equal,with the same rights and duties. Thus it is the Constitution that protects all citizens,irrespective of their religious denomination. Moreover,in a democracy there are no permanent majorities and minorities.
P.R. Dubhashi Pune
Taslima too
It was heartening to read that M.F. Husain is set to return to India (Ready to return…,IE,October 31). It is a triumph of secularism over fanaticism. In order to balance the scale,it is high time another celebrity,Taslima Nasreen,be allowed to return. She was forced to flee the country by the government and by extremists protesting her modern and progressive writings. Just as the Congress-led government is working vigorously to remove the innumerable court cases against Husain for his controversial paintings,it should also make the atmosphere in the country congenial for Taslima to return,live a peaceful life and continue her creative pursuits howsoever contentious they may be.
Sayyad Sharief Naqvi
Too liberal
Your editorial Looking backward (IE,November 2),criticising BJP president Rajnath Singh for demanding a law to check conversions,was quite baffling,even distressing. Rajnath Singh may have been guilty of bungling BJP affairs,but it seems unfair to pillory him for observations against conversions. I feel it is wrong to condone illegal mass conversions on the touchstone of liberalism,by looking the other way. Individual conversion can be regarded as a part of religious freedom,but can mass conversions that are generally engineered,mostly in poor,tribal areas,be justified? Have your editorial writers living in a real world,and not in an ivory tower,ever pondered over grave implications of this evil phenomenon on inter-community relations? Or,is liberalism such an over-riding and absolute principle that no national concern,however important,should restrain it?
M. Ratan
New Delhi
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