From: Sathish Gururajan <sathish@csee.wvu.edu>

I have been a Nandy basher in some of my responses to his columns. While maintaining that my view on those remain, I shall not refrain from giving my applause to his latest column. It is a subject really close to my heart and Mr Nandy has perfectly picturised the state of affairs involving uniformed law enforcers in India. Though to every Indian's disgust the Western media has succeeded in portraying India as a dirt pot, it has also admitted the success of democracy in India, going to an extent of even comparing the US & India in this aspect.

From: Sreenivasa Sista <ssista@ece.neu.edu>
This was an excellent article. Neta jab tak salaamat hain, we are bound to face these arrogant COPs.

I bet everyone in this great country has this in mind, except the sadasya of aaj ka goonda leaders. One thing I do not understand is "what does it take for all of them to raise the voice in a united way?" The answer is not elections in the current form (the sadasya have the expertise of getting the votes from the people -- of course, with the help of the omnipresent COPs).

I totally endorse Nandy's point here. An average citizen has the right to fully nurture and grow in whatever field s/he wants to, whether it is business or arts or whatever else. Unless we educated people raise our voice against this, the situation will only worsen. As an avid listener of rock, jazz, blues etc, I am totally appalled at the culture police. So much talent is subdued because of this. It leads to strangulation and death or worse flight, of the vast amount of untapped creativity there is in the country. What I would like to know here is whether any organised way of protest is underway yet? If there is some group who is doing this I would definitely like to support/participate in any reasonable protest mechanism.