I endorse most of what you said in your edit “A reassuring address” (August 16). I don’t, however, agree that the growth process has been made more “inclusive”. Just a few days earlier, a column in your newspaper rightly said “….corporate governance, accounting standards and disclosure practices adopted by some of India’s prominent companies are questionable” (“The face of business,” August 13). Liberalisation has come to mean unbarred freebooting. And, undoubtedly, the ranks of the poor have been swelling.
Also, the agitation on the Lok Pal Bill could have been avoided by including within its ambit the PM, the judiciary and the actions of MPs inside Parliament. A proviso that anyone who charges them of corrupt practices could be made to pay damages if he or she fails to prove the allegations in a court of law can be added to avoid political instability.
N Narasimhan, Bangalore
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