Opinion Wrong priorities?
This refers to the editorial Crossing a line. The response of the Union railway minister to the accident is shocking.
This refers to the editorial Crossing a line (IE,May 31). The response of the Union railway minister to the accident is shocking. She has not named Maoists whereas its clear that it was planned by them. As railway minister its her duty to ensure the security of passengers and railway properties. Banerjee is soft on Maoists because of the 2011 assembly election in West Bengal. If she is so keen on the chief ministers seat,why did she join the Union cabinet and in a big ministry? From the start of her tenure,whatever she has done so far has been through the prism of Bengals polls. But the railway ministry cannot have such a narrow agenda because the railway ministry is for the entire country.
Neeraj Shukla
New Delhi
The rest
The editorial Lessons in impunity (IE,May 31) has rightly raised the point of punishing those who aided former Haryana DGP S.P.S. Rathore in harassing Ruchika Girhotra and her family. Separate and new cases need to be registered against all those who were directly or indirectly involved in such misuse of their power. An administrative inquiry should be ordered to find out why Sacred Heart Convent,the school where Ruchika was studying,expelled her soon after the incident,which would have hurt her the most,thus forcing her to commit suicide.
Harpreet Sandhu
Exchange offer
This refers to Inder Malhotras The horses that led Operation Polo (IE,May 31). Its a revelation that Sardar Patel had sent a back-channel offer to Pakistan to swap Hyderabad for Kashmir. If this offer had worked out,Indo-Pak animosity and the wars could have been avoided. But Pakistani authorities foolishly thought that Kashmir would naturally go to them and Hyderabad,inhabited by 20 million people and the size of France,was the real prize. However,it is not known how the Sangh Parivar,which claims the legacy of Sardar Patel,would react to the revelation that he was ready to surrender Kashmir in 1947.
N.Kunju
Delhi
Lessons from the past
In Plutarchs Apothegms,Alexander the Great says,Heavens cannot brook two Suns,nor Earth two masters. It was the adamant and impenetrable willpower of Sardar Patel that compelled the Nizam of Hyderabads sovereignty to succumb before the Indian Union in spite of Pakistans and the British Conservative Partys support for him. Patel played the role of a modern Chanakya or Bismarck in making India the largest democracy on the globe. We look at the past to improve our present and future; so our leaders must learn from this and prove their prefulgency.
Kunnal Sharma
Amritsar
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