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Questions for home

Sir, — I was shocked to read the questions on Gujarat. What was the interviewer trying to get from Dr. Rice? Criticism? We have to learn from what Dr. Rice said. When an innocent person is killed, we are not going after the killers, we are not enacting any laws to punish the killers. Dramas are enacted to corner the votes of survivors.

Which State Government is ready to publish the statistics of communal violence and punishment given to the offenders? The questions should have been posed to Indian politicians, not to a foreign government.

Aravind Sripathi,

Washington DC

Sir, — Gujarat is an internal issue and should be handled as such and one does not need to get dictates from others to handle it. Yes, there have been human rights violations in Gujarat but every country passes through such periods. This does not mean that we should bend before the world. No country has any moral stand to condemn any other country/society for human rights violations as they themselves have done worse things in their own land.

Swaminathan

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