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• With reference to Tavleen Singh’s column, ‘‘Frozen in a hundred years of solitude’’, much has been said abou...

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• With reference to Tavleen Singh’s column, ‘‘Frozen in a hundred years of solitude’’, much has been said about the need for judicial reforms. The common man’s perception is that it is a curse to be entangled in court cases, even when there are compelling reasons to do so. Cases drag on for years with no end in sight. Lawyers use adjournments as the most effective weapon to harass the parties involved. With a huge pending workload clogging the judicial process, should the government not do away with the policy of courts taking a vacation? Courts should function like any other government department.
—V P Damodar

• Tavleen Singh has rightly stated that union law ministers have done little to improve the functioning of our judicial system. To improve the situation, we need to (i) cancel the summer and winter vacations of all courts; (ii) recruit more judges; (iii) fix time limits for cases; (iv) curb the executive’s power on the judiciary.
—Bidyut Kumar Chatterjee

• It is said that justice delayed is justice denied. But most of us Indians are usually denied justice, with cases adjourned for years on end.
—H M D Kamath

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• The British immunised their judges in India to save them from the ire of freedom fighters. The same immunity continues in free India too, leading to an unaccountable judiciary.
—Subhash C Agrawal

• With reference to Pamela Philipose’s column, ‘‘BJP really took the cake’’, the saffron party has time and again enthused its followers with nautankis and tamashas by its leaders. How can one forget L K Advani’s Rath Yatra, or the campaign against Sonia Gandhi’s foreign origins, or Uma Bharati’s rhetorics. And the BJP continues to keep its citizens entertained even when out of power.
—Shanta Hotta

• Soli Sorabjee’s suggestion, ‘‘Soliloquies’’, of a CBI journal deserves consideration. In the absence of a genuine political will to eliminate rampant corruption in almost all walks of life, such a step would go a long way in exposing the real culprits.
—S K Gupta

• Soli Sorabjee has proposed useful suggestions to reform the working of the CBI and to effectively check corruption. Publication of information on raids will definitely help. At the same time, politicians should be raided even when they are in power, and not just when they are in Opposition. The CBI should be an autonomous institution, like the Election Commission.
—Madhu Agrawal

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• In his column ‘‘The Singapore lesson’’, N K Singh has pointed out that premier Indian institutes like IIT and IIM are much sought after. To upgrade more universities to meet international standards, the central government must lay down a strict set of guidelines for all states and union territories. It should be mandatory for all new universities to obtain clearance from the central government. In this context, the de-recognition of many private universities in Chhattisgarh is a step in the right direction.
—Mahesh Kapasi

• I was surprised to find the following two lines appearing under my byline in an article themed around India-Pakistan cricket, published in the Sunday Eye, March 20: ‘‘And some moments in this war minus guns stuck. Here then is the gist of Indo-Pak cricket, from a 25-year-old’s perspective.’’ I protest this vigorously, and would like to clarify that I never wrote these words. I have never considered cricket, against Pakistan or anyone else, as war plus or minus anything. I consider such phrasing irresponsible and trite, and find it disturbing that somebody would feel the need to insert a sentiment of this nature into what was essentially a celebration of India-Pakistan cricket.
—Rahul Bhattacharya

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