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VOICE MAIL

        Sir,

        While Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had sleepless nights on the plight of UK terror suspects' relations, the actions of the Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed, who is from Muslim League, is going to add to the woes of PIOs and Indians travelling abroad.

        In the most brazen communal, bizarre and irresponsible action, Ahamed went to the house and met the wife and relations of Australian terror suspect Mohammed Haneef in Bangalore. He has promised legal assistance and other assistance to the terror suspect.

        This government, which is not bothered about the large numbers of POWs and fishermen languishing in Pakistani jails for more than decades, is more concerned about the jihadi Islamic terror suspect in Australia.

        Are these facilities available to Haneef available to all those involved in illegal activities abroad? Has this become a government ruled by the Muslim League? Are these rulers/politicians worried about the victims of Islamic terrorist acts? How many guilty have been punished?

        Under any functioning prosecution and judiciary, Ahamed of Kerala would have been in jail for protecting and abetting, in some cases, criminal activities such as Muslim communal riots leading to massacres of Hindus (Marad), fake certificates, note printing, illegal stamp papers, hawala activities and so on. This ever-expanding list of criminal activities some Kerala Muslims indulge can be a huge one.

        Also, all non-Muslims have to make sure that they do not support Islamic terrorist actions and other illegal activities overtly or covertly. Otherwise, the backlash against us will be heavy and punishing. Most are already observing this trend after 11 September attack in the US. Failure to clearly distance from Islamic terrorism will make the situation worse!

        Sir,

        Regarding the subject of interlinking of rivers, I wish to say that while everybody joins the chorus (for interlinking), each one has a different axe to grind and completely dissociated from any genuine concern to solve water problems. Your editorial is a refreshingly different solitary sane voice, paying deserving tributes to mother nature and her scheme of things and cautioning mankind from tampering with her designs. Our Dharma does not treat rivers as just inane water bodies but as goddesses with unbounden love for her children. Moreover, in any attempt to mess around or monkeying with mother nature, she will always have the last laugh.

        Our country is blessed with enough downpour of rain and our attempt should be to harness it with better planning instead of allowing it to go waste into the sea or to submerge lands and render poor people homeless and helpless. Practically nothing has been done in this direction till date. Every year we see the same monotonous miserable spectacle and it has become such a routine that nowadays we simply take it for granted.

        Sir,

        Pratibha Patil has been sworn in and drivels about divisive forces, empowerment of women and Indira Gandhi. And even as she spouts the prepared lines, Kiran Bedi, an IPS officer with a meritorious track record is by-passed for promotion as Delhi police chief. 'Morning shows the days' goes a saying, and if this is the first act of women empowerment being implemented under the benign umbrella of our new President, God save us from the 'Divisive Agenda' she will be enforcing.

        I hope that it is not too late to have the now-released (from jail) Monica Bedi is nominated in the VP race. She would fit in perfectly in the current Delhi set-up, and be much more photogenic in the process, and perhaps end up teaching our Sonias and Pratibhas a thing or two apart from keeping our doddering, veteran Parliamentarians/Legislators and coalition allies awake and drooling during Parliament sessions.