Letters: Economy in words

How long can real issues be swept under the carpet, just because they are politically sensitive?

With reference to “Wrong choice of words can create big news: Panagariya” (April 28), in Malayalam there is a saying that “four men may agree, but no two women will agree”. But that was the position long back! One recalled it when thinking of a situation now when “four politicians may agree, but no two economists will have the same view”.

How else can one explain the following? First, post-demonetisation observations by Manmohan Singh, Amartya Sen, Raghuram Rajan, Dr Y V Reddy and Arvind Subramanian, some of which were made controversial later. Second, positions that are now being taken by