Any Sania solutions?•This refers to your editorial, An unsuitable girl?. A few irrational fanatics should not be allowed to persecute such sporting talents. India is a secular republic. The pity is that the politicians and the lower judiciary are generally on the side of fanatical tormentors. This seems to be so because of the orthodox mindset of the ruling class. True, the victim can go to the higher courts for redress. But then having to run to law courts for years is itself a punishment. The Central government together with the Supreme Court should appoint a legal commission to see that complaints about hurting religious feelings, showing disrespect to national symbols, etc are genuine from a secular and human rights point of view before allowing any court to proceed with such cases. — N. KunjuDelhi Pak bastion• G. Parthasarathy’s ‘How Kandahar hijacked us’ as also Ritu Sarin’s despatch, ‘.Pak couldn’t care less, US didn’t help either’ are instructive for two reasons.One, Pakistan will not help as it is hand in glove with the terrorists, besides running training camps for terrorists on its soil, making India the principal victim.Two, as for the US response, it is not difficult to understand its indifference towards us vis-a-vis terrorism. If the terrorists shower their depredations on India, it is simply due to the fact that it cannot let down Pakistan, because our western neighbour is helping combat the Taliban terrorism and the Al-Qaeda menace.— M.K.D. Prasada RaoGhaziabadMumbai for whom?•The drama that unfolded after MNS chief Raj Thackeray’s diatribe against north Indians working in Maharashtra has once again sparked off a debate on the maximum city’s cosmopolitan image. Soon after he made the outrageous remarks aimed at non-Marathis and notably Amitabh Bachchan, there was a widespread outcry. The question is, should Mumbai only be for Marathis? Mumbai, which is deemed India’s commercial capital, is a city where people from across India have come to seek their futures and fortunes all these decades. — Farzana Nigar Ranchi • It’s shameful that we cannot protect our own citizens when they migrate to other states for employment as is evident from the recent episode of north Indian-bashing in Mumbai by MNS hooligans. Despite this, we stretch ourselves tall to criticise the government of Malaysia for its crackdown on ethnic Indians. It is mischievous to suppose that migrants are eating up the opportunities of the sons of the soil.If Indians cannot be loved in their own country when they travel to other states, then how can we expect the same from the Malaysian government which feels that a section of the ethnic Indians over there is out to disrupt the peace of that country? — Safiya SameenaVijayawadaIn Centre’s fold•With the attacks in Mumbai against North Indians instigated by a regional political party, one wistfully recalls the wise recommendation of the 1955 States Reorganisation Commission (SRC) that Bombay (Mumbai), being above linguistic considerations, should be a centrally administered state like Delhi. Bombay has been built and nurtured by almost everyone from every corner of India. If political considerations had not clouded the vision of the government at that time, Bombay as a city state would have been a world-class city like New York, Shanghai, Tokyo or London.— Bobby Srinivas Nagpur
