Sleaze it is

Sir, -Your attributes such as deceitful, unscrupulous and manipulative to the recent expose episode (Editorial, August 24), are absolute. Meanwhile, the good advice not to lose or forget the `original revelations' may not hold really good as the process of `revelation' and the contents of the `revealed' are in equal din as to nullify each other beyond a doubtful and possible purpose of their own! The whole thing seems to be cynically sleazy because it lacks a totality. The so-called, advanced gadgets and methodology of expose, no doubt, can catch the specific acts of commission and omission.

They may be, in fact, so specific that they may not call for a general flutter at all. It is anybody's conceptual experience that he or she is suffocatingly engulfed by a sphere of corruption. It hardly needs a visual or aural concrete revelation.

The check is possible only through a mechanism of social control. That control can only be ensured by the rule of real majority. Now that the majority we see comes only `by default' in the legislature system, we find a lot of such beating about the bush, taking things nowhere.

R. K. Divakara,

Bangalore

Sir, - The ``use'' of women as ``material'' by Tehelka is shocking, disgusting and outrageous. Does Tehelka think that woman is a material that can ``justifiably'' be used to do any work?

No rationally thinking person who has even an iota of decency would support such an act. Who gave them licence to adopt such `techniques'?

If one supports the Tehelka chief's argument, then it is up to every individual to decide whatever means to do whatever he or she wants to do. Everyone should strongly condemn Tehelka in such a way that no one would dare to use women as material.

Geeta Kharge,

Bangalore

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