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Thursday, November 13 1997

Letters to the Editor

Ruling Raj Bhavans

As the standards of political conduct fall, the natural tendency is to make more and tougher rules in the hope of defeating the low cunning of individuals. But merely adding new rules to the book will not bring about good behaviour. A few sound rules should be more than enough if they can be regularly enforced.

Heads, you lose

So the Delhi government has lost its spunk, and a lot of pillion-riders now stand to lose their heads as a result. By backing down on making protective helmets mandatory for pillion-riders, the BJP government of Delhi is guilty of the very behaviour that it has often attacked the Congress for: minority appeasement. Only in this case, it is not over something as abstruse as personal law, but on a measure that is universally regarded as an important life-saving one.

Death of an alliance

It took an Indian infant to burst the bubble of Anglo-American "special relations". The murder trial of the British nanny responsible for killing the Indian child and her subsequent conviction by a court in Massachusetts has led to jingoistic demonstrations against the US in Britain, and by implication against India. How could a court award the maximum sentence to a British nurse for killing a coloured Indian child?

Ruling Raj Bhavans

Heads, you lose

Death of an alliance

Finally, we are most amused

Man, not nature, creates sex ratios