Opinion Farewell,Maestro
Sarod maestro Ustad Ali Akbar Khan was a colossus of Indian classical music.
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• Sarod maestro Ustad Ali Akbar Khan was a colossus of Indian classical music. One of the most accomplished musicians of his generation and the son of the legendary Ustad Alauddin Khan,Ali Akbar was hailed by the late Yehudi Menuhin as “the greatest musician in the world”. He had many a first to his credit in taking Indian classical music to the West. This,besides the revolution of sorts he caused in instrumental Indian music and the inspiration generations of musicians draw from him. His demise is sad; a maestro of his calibre will not come for a long time,if ever.
— Javed Rehman Khan
Party & power
• The editorial ‘State & party’ rightly analysed that the CPM’s long reign in West Bengal was a systematic and deliberate destruction of the administrative machinery to perpetuate the party’s hold on power. Lalgarh is just one effect of this long perversion.
In a universe where bureaucrats,academics,policemen,etc are entrenched in party affiliations,accountability can only be a silly theological notion. You rightly conclude that when the Lalgarh collapse came,the government’s failure was a mark of the “newfound wimpishness” that has followed years of cadre violence — because it never believed it could be defeated by the ballot.
— Dilbag Rai Chandigarh
Chances missed
• The BJP’s inability to stem the influence of Marxist thought,especially on the concept of secularism,was the obstacle to its ascendance. The author rightly points out that the ‘90s were the most conducive years for the party to change the discourse of Indian politics as leading personalities were attracted to it. That had been the BJP’s chance to provide intellectual firepower to the debate on secularism. The party could have offered a new fulcrum to Indian politics by redefining centrism by tempering its Western definition with Indian ethos.
— Ajay Tyagi Mumbai
• This refers to ‘Clash of ambitions’. The BJP’s poll debacle came not just from ineffectual leadership but also grassroots mismanagement. The party paid for voter alienation. The BJP has to radically redefine itself and its politics to regain even a semblance of the goodwill it once enjoyed.
— N.V. Unnithan Mumbai
Dangerously smug
• The Maharashtra government is smug in its satisfaction that the Pradhan Panel report on 26/11 has not indicted it overtly. It is very easy to point fingers at Hasan Gafoor alone. But 26/11 was an administrative failure and the person at the head of that failure was then CM Vilasrao Deshmukh,who has been conveniently inducted into the Union ministry. The state government doesn’t want to put the full report in the public domain. Thus it is the Centre that must act in the interest of the people of Maharashtra. — Bellur S. Dattatri Pune
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