Letters to the editor

Apologise to him• This is with reference to the front page news, ‘Unpardonable offence by Murthy...’ (IE, April 14). The virt...

Apologise to him

• This is with reference to the front page news, ‘Unpardonable offence by Murthy…’ (IE, April 14). The virtues of playing an instrumental version of National Anthem can be debated ad nauseam, but it cannot be a basis for judging whether Narayana Murthy is a traitor of this country, as some Karnataka politicians have attempted to do. If Murthy is to be considered a traitor then who, pray, is not a traitor? In any case, what have these politicians done to emerge as the true patriots of India? The fact

is that most citizens of this country feel ashamed of the stance of these politicians. This testifies to how untenable it is. These gentleman should, in fact, offer an open and unqualified apology to the chief mentor of Infosys.

—Ganga Prasad Dixit Delhi

Judge the balance

• The editorial page article, ‘Equality is a fine balance’ (IE, April 14), made interesting reading. Having said that, I do feel, however, that the writer does not engage sufficiently with the fact that our judges have often delivered verdicts that have undermined the status of the legislature with little justification. In fact, many eminent judges and chief justices of India have recognised this trend and have rightly cautioned against it.

— Pradip Biswas Kolkata

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• Apropos of the piece, ‘Equality is a fine balance’, it is wrong to maintain that the courts are crossing their limits in delivering judgments that have gone against politicians. The law is very clear that the courts have to interpret the Constitution and decide each case within its four corners. The courts are not law makers, neither do they police society. Our judges have internalised these principles pretty well.

— Mahesh Kumar New Delhi

Joint collaboration

• While B.R. Ambedkar’s intelligence and grip on law cannot be questioned, it is altogether different when it comes to calling him the “Father of the Indian Constitution” (‘The oppressed are one community’, IE, April 11). By no stretch of the imagination can one single person have fathered the Indian Constitution alone. Our Constitution was the outcome of the contributions made by eminent personalities like Rajendra Prasad, Nehru, Patel, Ambedkar, Rau,Krishnaswamy Iyer and many others. Let not history be distorted by vote-hungry politicians. Ambedkar had piloted the Constitution Bill by virtue of being the law minister.

— K.R.P. Gupta Mumbai

Clarification

• The third sentence in ‘What the world is reading’ (IE, April 16) should have read: France is “the Euro zone’s second biggest member and home to ten of Europe’s 50 biggest companies”.

—Editor