Create jobs

Serious and joint steps are required to create more jobs in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Tamil Nadu is crying for attention on various fronts especially because of administrative failure and the current political crisis.

Tuticorin, Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari are the hubs of elite education. Every year these schools and colleges here churn out talented students in large numbers. Unfortunately, these young students have to go to distant cities like Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Mumbai when it comes to employment.

Tuticorin, Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari are home to vigorous agricultural activities which, if supported and encouraged properly, will yield mammoth results. Though there have long been industrial activities here, in the areas like Tuticorin and Tirunelveli, the many projects such as the Nanguneri special economic zone have been left in the lurch. The government should draw up a blueprint to develop industrial/agricultural activities in this region apart from creating more jobs for the educated.

P Senthil Saravana Durai

Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu

End of the red beacon era?

What the Cabinet took away from our VVIPs is not just the beacon light but also a slice of the VIP culture itself that disgustingly dominates our society. Two chief ministers, Yogi Adityanath and Capt Amarinder Singh of UP and Punjab, respectively, removed the beacons from their vehicles the moment they occupied their posts.

Well, if this is the beginning, then more symbols of the Raj era should go. This is a democracy not an autocracy. There are several invisible beacon lights that should also die out. Hope the Government makes the right moves not just the right noises.

J Akshay

Bengaluru

The Government putting an end to the custom of using red lights on VIP vehicles is a historic decision. Significantly, the President, PM, CJI and Lok Sabha Speaker are also not exempt from the decision either. With this order, the Centre rather than lowering the status of VIPs, has raised the level of the ordinary citizen. The next step should be the abolition of VIP counters in major temples. The ₹1,000 and ₹5,000 worship counters at major temples should also go. All are equal and such bans should be extended to other areas too where poor people are discriminated against.

KA Solaman

Alappuzha, Kerala

Slow justice

In the Babri Masjid case, the course of justice while being excruciatingly slow has not been particularly productive so far. Apart from BJP veterans LK Advani, MM Joshi and others it is the BJP’s credibility that will be on trial for the next two years and the outcome will coincide with the Lok Sabha elections. If convicted, Advani and others will get a minimum of five years in jail. That would mean a sad end to political careers built on inflaming communal passions that resulted in the Babri Masjid demolition and some 2,000 killings in riots that followed. The Supreme Court, the CBI, and the Centre deserve credit for belatedly attempting to rectify the mistakes.

Jayatheertha SA

Hyderabad

The apex court had to invoke extraordinary powers to reinstate this case on senior politicians after the lapse of half a generation. That some of them continue to be as defiant as before should be our lesser concern. They are entitled to a fair trial.

Very recently a US state federal judge refused protection to candidate Trump, now president, for a campaign speech of fresh vintage that incited violence. Earlier, the courts had twice negated executive orders from the Oval office on immigration control. This when the process of appointment to lower and higher judiciary in the US is highly varied. Some are elected on partisan tickets, others nominated by mayors, governors, the president to be then vetted by legislative councils or the senate.

We continue to expend efforts on the process of nomination of judges whereas most progressive democracies spend it on rigorously vetting the nominees.

R Narayanan

Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh

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