Letters to The Editor — February 24, 2026

The terms of membership

India’s introduction into the Pax Silica confederation marks a displacement from exclusion to inclusion successful cardinal exertion coalitions. The situation present lies successful gathering scrutiny and conditionalities that trial its concern capacity. Heavy reliance connected PLI schemes exposes structural gaps. While telecom has advanced, artillery manufacturing lags and upstream star segments stay weak, highlighting the limits of superior subsidies without beardown exertion partnerships, skilled labour and R and D depth. Though Pax Silica promises trusted proviso chains, it besides brings export controls, and exertion transportation guardrails.

Sowbakyatha S.U.,

Tiruchi

C.L. Ramakrishnan

C.L. Ramakrishnan, IPS, and a erstwhile Director General of Police, Tamil Nadu, who passed distant connected February 22, was a singular property known for his integrity, erudition, and heavy cognition of constabulary process and law, honed implicit his agelong tenure successful the Central Bureau of Investigation. His genuine simplicity encouraged inferior officers to attack him freely and larn the intricacies of transgression investigation. He was besides an accomplished Sanskrit scholar, whose discourses connected scriptures, particularly the Narayaneeyam, captivated audiences acold and wide. Personally, his demise is simply a large loss, arsenic his guidance taught maine galore subtle nuances of the law.

R.K. Raghavan,

Chennai