Page 17 - Letters

Letters: End tax exemptions

If the government means business, the charity should begin at home

Letters: Revisit legal system

This is evident when we observe that courts have been facing a mountain of stressed assets cases

Letters Historic role of banks

This is time to recollect, briefly, the history of these entities

Letters: Time for a rethink

The govt must step come up with stringent measures to make banks efficient in conducting business

Letters: Mayawati's chances dim

Aditi Phadnis is right in observing in her column, ?Can Mayawati storm back to power in UP?? (February 25), that a victory ? if at all ? for Mayawati?s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) would be less about her views on social reform and more about the sins of omission of her rivals.The BSP chief is adept at playing the caste card to her political advantage during elections, but it is simply because she wants to come to power in Uttar Pradesh at any cost.Mayawati has so far been making extensive use of the caste coalition of Brahmins and Dalits to reap a rich political harvest. But despite her best efforts, she had to be content with 80 seats out of 403 in the state Assembly in 2012. Worse, her party failed to open its account in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.What does all this indicate? Voters are no longer fooled by caste-based appeals and emotive political speeches.The Muslims seem to have been shortchanged by the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party (SP) government; they are dismayed at the fa

Letters: Change in voter attitude

In the context of the ongoing Assembly elections, the way political parties are communicating with the public and the ability of the latter to infer the genuineness of their message indicate that Indian politics is changing fast.India is on the path to achieving political certainty and economic freedom. Political parties are realising, albeit gradually, that they have to fight elections with growth as their manifesto rather than solely on the basis of caste.Revolutions are not always visible. The revolution that is taking place in the attitude of Indian citizens is bound to offer good results. It will give scholars, who doubt India?s growth, a topic of research.Demonetisation brought back 85 per cent of the currency into the system and cleaned up the economy. Similarly, a voting trend, whereby the shift is towards economic growth, will bring glory to the country.Raj Kamal, CoimbatoreLetters can be mailed, faxed or e-mailed to:The Editor, Business StandardNehru House, 4 Bahadur Shah Zaf

Letters: Dressing and preserving

One way to mitigate farm produce issues is by dealing with perishable commodities

Letters: Groupthink tendency

Recent developments in Infosys point to a general dysfunctional governance issue

Letters: Air India's future

Raju seems to be in a Catch-22 situation over the issue of Air India's privatisation

Letters: Viral's message

RBI is not comfortable with the hit-and-run or first-aid approach of handling problems

Letters: Don't start from scratch

Of the 3.9 million IT employees, if 1.5 million can be trained it would be an achievement

Letters: 'Student of the decade'

Gandhi is perhaps the only politician in India not focused on any issue of national interest

Letters: Soulless creation

Running an educational institute is significantly different from running a family business

Letters: Lack of accountability

Naturally, parties make such promises and forget about them when they come to power

Letters: Rare voice of criticism

Rajiv Bajaj's comment on demonetisation deserves more than applause

Letters: Bank mergers

The merger process should now focus more on making bank branches of the merged entity

Letters: Speak responsibly

It is appalling that P Chidambaram said the Army chief had crossed a line with his statement

Letters: Regulate genetic testing

Although the technology is amazing, we need to regulate its use, like the dosage for any medicine

Letters: Points of disagreement

Do we have the time to experiment with new institutions or mechanisms for recovering bad loans?

Letters: Reducing stressed assets

India's macroeconomic stability is under threat from non-performing assets