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Cure your mind
The editorial Cure the stigma (Feb. 4) has been presented with a purpose and deserves commendation.
The editorial Cure the stigma (Feb. 4) has been presented with a purpose and deserves commendation. Repeal of Lepers Act, 1898, was an achievement but this disease still finds mention in a few other Acts in a negative manner. Let India be rid of such mindsets.
Diwakar Sharma
Delhi
Who’s the rogue?
The IAEA has at last referred Iran’s nuclear programme to the UN Security Council on the ground that Iran is a rogue State and cannot be trusted. The term ‘rogue’ needs redefining. Which country owns the maximum weapons of mass destruction? Which country has the maximum nuclear arsenal and has used an atom bomb? Which country has invaded another country without UN sanction and has relentlessly bombed it? It is America. The question to be answered is: if America can be trusted, why not Iran?
N.B. Grant
Pune
Good show
The government deserves praise for its stand on Iran’s nuclear issue and privatisation of two airports. The comrades will find it difficult to digest this.
G.S. Kulkarni
Delhi
Breakdown of law
The solution to the on-going demolitions is much awaited (Three-point plan in the works, February 6). But the government should not forget that some bureaucrats and officials were the first to violate laws by accepting bribes to regularise the unauthorised areas.
How come these strict policies are not implemented in the case of high profile officials or ministers? The government is surely answerable to all those vulnerable citizens whose livelihood is at stake because of these demolitions.
Deepti Laroia
Delhi
Free to oppose
Freedom of expression doesn’t give a licence to hurt religious sensibilities. The Danish newspaper didn’t do the right thing by publishing cartoons of the Prophet. M.F. Husain too had hurt Hindu sentiments when he painted Goddess Saraswati in a manner which some found objectionable.
At least those who had protested against him then shouldn’t now criticise Muslims opposed to the cartoons of being extremists.
Pranav Sachdeva
Delhi
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