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Shine for all

Sir, — While appreciating Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement that India must shine for the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, other backward classes and the minorities, can I humbly request him not to forget the lesser mortals of India — the `forward' castes who are being choked by the political whims and fancies of successive governments?

J. Akshobhya,
Hyderabad

Sir, — When the idea of reservation in the private sector was first mooted, it appeared as if someone was whistling in the dark. Now, when the same is being couched in euphemism at a press conference by the Prime Minister, we have to seriously worry about the future of the nation.

After pursuing mindless and ineffective reservation for the last five-plus decades, if the same prescription is doled out in the private sector, one has to question not the thinking process but the intentions of the rulers.

N.K. Raveendran,
Bangalore

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