Terror without tag

• Terrorism knows no faith, ideology or caste. It only endorses mass killings under the names of different terror outfits such as the Maoists, the LTTE, the Taliban or the ULFA. Most of these outfits are killing their own people .

Unfortunately, some people promote the idea that the only terrorism in the world is Islamist terrorism. Is it not unjust to censure all adherents of Islam round the world because of a handful of wrongdoers?

Maya unfair

• This refers to the editorial ‘Wash it away’. Mayawati’s attack on Rahul Gandhi’s visits to Dalit homes underlines the painful fact that, despite her recent inclusive rhetoric of “Sarvajan Samaj”, she essentially retains her old and offensive hate-based casteist tendencies. She refuses to recognise that the fathers of the Constitution, despite their often upper caste status, incorporated provisions for the uplift of Dalits. These provisions were meant to wipe away the inequities of the past, promoting a just, egalitarian social order. The mass media and the bulk of the Indian people are the strongest advocates of this social transformation.

Of course, we still have many miles to go before the ancient orthodoxies and prejudices are fully overcome.