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DEMOCRACY
VS DICTATORSHIP
In your editorial “Beware of Double Standard Democracy”, you have raised
the issue that some powerful nations of the world which dare not impose
dictatorship at home were guilty of imposing new brand of dictatorship
on other countries of the world in the garb of spreading a new kind of
democracy of doubtful nature composed of hirelings and traitors to their
own national interests. At the same time, the same nations continue to
support Asian, African and Latin American dictatorships and oligarchies
masquerading as democracies. While you have raised this crucial issue. I
think it is now for the intellectual community of the world to examine,
expose and protest against this new herrenvolkism which had given birth
to Nazim before the Second World War. Consciously or unconsciously, the
powerful nations themselves have started the battle between democracy
and dictatorship as systems of politics and governance and they could be
victims of a courage which has already given encouragement to terrorism,
communalism, national and regional conflicts. If they allowed to go
unchecked, this cult of neoimperialism could only lead to all the
maladies which could possible lead to another world war. It is a warning
which mankind would ignore at its own cost.
Pedro Garcia, Mumbai
DICTATOR
DEMOCRATS
Your editorial "Beware of
Double Standard Democracy" to be a polite exposure of game plan of Bush,
Blair and brothers like the old East India Company, which sold slave
colonialism in the garb of trade. There are now this clan of new
dictator democrats who are trying to grab oil and territories in the
grab of spreading their own export brand democracy. The world must
become wise to the tricks of these new dictator-democrats
and save
themselves from the
onslaught of the new and diversifies East India Company.
Romen Ghosh, Kolkata
IT IS ALL BORN
OF
NEGATIVISM
Your DayAfter Story, "The Vindictive, the Vicious
and the Vulgar" rightly indicates that all the social, political and
moral root which is engulfing the country these days is, among other
causes, born of a mindless negativism propagated by vested political and
commercial interests in the country. Political parties and bureaucrats
are negative, the
corporate
sector is negative, the educational system is negative, your own media
too is negative in pursuing negativism of the worst kink. We must fight
this habitual and attitudinal negativism before we can tackle the bigger
monster of the culture of the "vindictive, vicious and the vulgar".
Radhe Shyam
Dogra, Jammu
DOUBLE
STANDARDS
I can understand your anger at the spread of
‘Double Standard Democracy" by some Western countries and power
media chains of the West, specially the electronic channels which have
instant and mind-boggling impact on viewers and listeners. But I cannot
understand why you close your eyes to such double standards being
practiced by men and women in power and the media barons in your
country. Charity must begin at home. Please beware of and expose the
dictatorship of the "King Makers" and number-mongers in your country.
Remember dictators and power hungry have no caste, country and religion.
They have only one creed, hunger for power. Just look around and you
will not have to look far. You have plenty of them in Tamil Nadu, Goa,
Gujarat, Maharashtra, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and
Himachal. Please try to take note of these little dictators and theirs
dictatorial gangs too who practice not only double standards but often
triple standards.
Monica Mohanty,
Cuttack
THE VULGAR
WAVE
Your DayAfter Story "The Vindictive, the Vicious
and the Vulgar" should make every sane Indian sit up and think where has
the present vulgarity wave its origin. I feel it is the limited neo-rich
class of status mongers and material monsters who are responsible for
it. And may I take the liberty of pointing that you, the media owners
who are all powerful in this vastly half-educated country and cater for
the semi literates of the nation, also have our own share of guilt in
spreading this vulgarity wave. Rape, robbery, murder, theft and naked
display of female body are only the surface manifestation of the mindset
of the vindictive, the vicious and the vulgar. The material man and the
material woman is taking the entire nation for a ride. Let the cure
first begin with the media and its page three insolence and cheap
arrogance. Will you have the courage to take a lead in helping clean up
the media itself first, the mother of all vulgarity in the country
today.
Jahan Ansari,
Kanpur
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