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Meghnad Desai

The idea of Pakistan


Meghnad Desai

Letters To Editor

Letters to the Editor

No helping hand

No helping hand * This refers to ‘In Jaipur tunnel, girl, mother bleed to death as motorists ignore cries for help’ (IE, April 16). Precious lives were lost because of the shocking apathy of passers-b......read more
Letters to the Editor

Points of view

Points of view * This refers to ‘Rashtrapati Bhavan laid low by a road’ (IE, April 15). Delhi’s central vista, including the approach to Rashtrapati Bhavan, was designed by the architects Lutyens and ......read more
Letter to the Editor

Ties that bind

Ties that bind Let us appreciate and apply the out-of-the-box strategy that defuses tensions between India and China. It must be used to address the issue of China’s nuclear assistance to Pakistan as......read more
Letters of the Week

Bengal in turmoil

Bengal in turmoil This refers to the attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the state’s finance minister, Amit Mitra, and the subsequent violence unleashed by Trinamool Congress wor......read more
Letters to the Editor

Long shadows

Long shadows * This refers to the Delhi court’s rebuke of the CBI for not recording the statements of all available witness (‘Court puts Tytler back in the dock’, IE,April 11). The case has been reope......read more
Letters to the Editor

Bengal in turmoil

Bengal in turmoil * This refers to the attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the state’s finance minister, Amit Mitra, and the subsequent violence unleashed by Trinamool Congress wo......read more
Letters to the Editor

History's mysteries

History’s mysteries The WikiLeaks cables may not be the exact scripts of the dramas enacted behind the scenes, in the corridors of power, but they are fair indicators of what might have happened (‘Con......read more
Letters to the Editor

Speed of justice

Speed of justice * President Pranab Mukherjee’s rapid negotiation of mercy petitions would indicate that he does not want to be remembered as a head of state who sat on pleas for years (‘SC stays exec......read more
Letters to the Editor

Who’s government?

Who’s government? * This refers to the report ‘Mood unduly pessimistic, can return to 8 % growth, says PM’, (IE, April 4). Addressing the annual CII meet, the PM said that despite the growth rate sli......read more
Letters of the Week

No third option

No third option With the national elections looming, talk of a Third Front has been revived. Earlier, the Left would take the initiative and the Third Front thrived in years marked by the decline of t......read more
Letters to the Editor

High standards

High standards In his article, ‘A question of standards, not principle’ (IE, April 4), Vinay Sitapati makes a reasoned argument. As he rightly observes, Novartis, which paid its outgoing CEO $78 milli......read more
Letters to the Editor

Medicinal effect

Medicinal effect This refers to ‘Patent with a purpose’ (IE, April 3). Even the best cancer drug can never be a silver bullet. They all have side effects and it may take continuous research to mitigat......read more
Letters to the Editor

The right medicine

The right medicine This refers to ‘SC rejects Novartis plea for patent protection’ (IE, April 2). The Supreme Court is right to refuse Novartis’s demand for a patent for the cancer drug, Glivec. Charg......read more
Letters to the Editor

Back to school

Back to school * This refers to ‘Still waiting for RTE’ by John Kurrien (IE, April 1). It is sad that the government’s most ambitious programme to improve education in schools across the country has s......read more