— H.S. Gur

Hisar

Exit loser

• This refers to your editorial ‘Carry on Doctor’. The Supreme Court has called Anbumani Ramadoss’s bluff over his personal war with P. Venugopal. Ramadoss made all-out efforts to see that Parliament passed the ordinance ensuring the untimely exit of Venugopal. You are right in saying that despite India’s enormous public health needs, ministers choose to fight “imaginary monsters”. The health minister should now resign.

— S.K. Gupta

Delhi

One, united tongue

• I agree with M.S. Ananth’s view that multilingualism will shatter the fabric of the Indian administration. Macaulay wanted English to be taught in India to produce natives with a working knowledge of the language. But once the language was established, it produced Raja Ram Mohun Roy, Tagore, J.C. Bose, Tilak, Gokhale, Gandhi and Nehru. The British were finally thrown out by this very language. The mode of governance and the cultural diversity of India is such that it cannot be run without English. After all, English gave us a language which made us a nation.

— M.G. Kapahy

Delhi