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THANK you Editor Sunil Dang, for your editorial " Let us defog our minds". Yes, the politicians, media persons, diplomats and the policy makers in corporate and public sector fields need to defog their minds if the country has to continue to pursue the path of just progress. But there is the ever-growing and parasitic sector of governance, the mindless ones, in whose case we need nothing less than stringent pest control. The pests include the clerks, the inspectors, the linemen, the meter readers, the water supply babus, the ration shop-keepers and so on and on…. As their public and private income grows, their efficiency decreases and they become irresponsive and deaf to the sufferings of the citizens. Will you kindly bring on record the threat from these public enemies, who are more dangerous than the politicians, the high bureaucrats and underworld dons. These parasites are well known but none cares to take them on, not even the bosses of the departments where they become regularly to draw their salaries and irregularly to do some work, if they come at all. The story is the same in every metro. Please use your pen to unmask these termites who are eating up the civil society. They deserve your attention. Rekha Khatri Set up defogging committees DEAR editor, accept my thanks for drawing attention to the fog in our minds and the need to defog ourselves in your editorial. I suggest that you set up "defogging committees " all over the country. If you set up one in Mumbai, I shall be among the first to volunteer working for it. Sudhakar Ranade Regionalism is more dangerous YOU are right in pointing out in your editorial that if we can shake hands in Islamabad with one-time foes, why cannot we shake hands at home with one another and consider the progress and problems of the people more important than privileges. Power and prejudices of the political parties and perpetual prophets of conflict" I quite agree with you that the regional conflicts in India have created even more dangerous terrorist groups and militant outfits than the Pakistani proxy war. In fact, the use of regionalism in politics is the fountainhead of conflicts for power which degenerates further into sub-regional, ethic, linguistic and tribal conflicts. I would suggest that let us expose and bring to book those who use personality feuds and power conflicts to air the politics of violence, vilification and mudslinging. When we start looking for the culprits we shall find most of them just around the corner. These are the real enemies of the people who seek to balkanise India and reduce it to pieces, which are ever in conflicts with one another. Let us expose them and get rid of them. Kiran Kolhatkar Why not a NAARC? IT is a brilliant idea that you have put forth in your editorial. Why not have a NAARC at home? We are badly in need of a National Association for Accord and Regional Cooperation (NAARC), between various regions, religions and states and communities of India. Of course, as you have suggested, we shall have to rise above our personality barriers and prejudice barriers. Our politics is today divided on the basis of who hates whom, who seeks to separate his community or his region from the national mainstream. Do we want to reduce the ideal of a united India into a coalition of selfish and self-seeking political factions, who seek to form governments in the states and Centre through mechanical permutation and combination? Let us hold a NAARC and then make a choice whether we want to stay united or permanently divided and sub-divided. Madhukar Damle Admn.turns into utter maladministration YOUR DayAfter story, even though based on what appeared in your amazing journal years ago, is always more contemporary than the morning daily newspapers of today. The point I am making is that several years after with a whole parade of political leaders of various kinds, colours and characters, having come and gone, the crux of the crucial question remains the same - Is the nation getting ready to welcome the Republic Day 2004? " I would bluntly say," No" because what you thought administration in 1998 has turned into utter mal-administration at various levels in 2004. Let us do something now to ensure that we can punish the guilty men in 2004 rather than staying satisfied with promises of clean-up and progress at some distant point in future. Zakir Ali Khan May it come true YOUR cover story posing the question " Will the Indo-Pak chill be over?" by Siddharth Srivastava, made interesting reading. It highlighted that " By all indications, Pakistan seems to be increasingly realising that good neighbourly relations with India is the one sure way to its own prosperity" All I can wish is that what your correspondent has written comes true. Mehboob Ali Wanted poll wisdom VIJAY Sanghvi’s story about poll phobia in the context of the coming Lok Sabha election, has rightly put a hand on the Congress pulse, which seems to be rather low in the pre-poll chill. I think if the major political parties like the Congress and the BJP can retain their present numbers in the Lok Sabha it will be a miracle. In fact, friendly and not so friendly mice, the fringe and faction parties, will continue to nibble at overall vote. They cannot form a government on their own but would like to do deals in the coalition marts. Almost every party is for sale to one or another coalition corporate. Perhaps the wisest thing for the electorate would be to make their choice between the major parties----the BJP and the Congress and eliminate the political mice busy with their nibblemanship. Surya Narayan Rao |
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