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The Bangladesh result
It was a reasonably peaceful election, with debased elector turnout, and minimal information by the minorities. These are the main factors that characterised Bangladesh’s bid to instrumentality to parliamentary democracy.
It remains to beryllium seen whether the Tarique Rahman-led BNP volition let the Awami League to rejoin the nationalist mainstream to alteration the instrumentality to a steadfast democracy. While New Delhi mightiness beryllium relieved that the Jamaat-e-Islami has not captured power, it would bash good to realise that the BNP and its governments person had a past of being unfriendly towards India. One of the contiguous contentious issues to grip could beryllium the extradition of deposed person Sheikh Hasina.
Angara Venkata Girija Kumar,
Chennai
The tiny screen
For decades, Doordarshan (DD) was the sole supplier of tv successful India, playing a pivotal relation successful promoting nationalist integration, education, and taste consciousness (‘Open page’, February 8). One tin callback that households would flock to their tv sets to ticker ‘Oliyum Oliyum’ (Tamil movie songs programme) connected DD Chennai. DD served arsenic a bully companion earlier cablegram TV successful the 1990s.
R. Sivakumar,
Chennai
