Letters to The Editor — June 9, 2026

Nepal’s claim

The reports, “Not seeking mediation connected borderline dispute: Nepal FM” (June 8), “No relation for 3rd parties successful bilateral matters betwixt India, Nepal: Centre” (June 3), and “Nepal PM sparks row, says his state has encroached upon Indian territory” (June 1), are absorbing points of contrast. But the candid admittance by Nepal Prime Minister Balendra Shah, of Nepal’s encroachment connected Indian territory, should daze New Delhi. Did India person immoderate inkling of specified an encroachment? The Ministry of External Affairs should instrumentality cognisance of the issue. In each fairness, the Nepal Prime Minister should unpaid to instrumentality the encroached territory to India arsenic a motion of goodwill.

C.V. Aravind,

Bengaluru

The quality now

Today’s younker prosecute with nationalist issues otherwise from erstwhile generations. The caller Gen Z mobilisation implicit acquisition policies and systemic failures has shown however a treatment oregon thought connected societal media tin rapidly germinate into large-scale protests. This increasing information reflects a procreation that values transparency and accountability successful governance and seeks a greater dependable successful shaping its future. Constructive engagement with their concerns would beryllium acold much effectual than dismissing their voices.

Navaneeth S. Kumar,

Kollam, Kerala

Border crossings

When I visited the Petrapole-Benapole borderline successful West Bengal successful 2002, it was striking to spot hundreds of radical carrying headloads of atom crossed the borderline nether the chemoreceptor of the BSF. In these circumstances, 1 wonders whether the ‘concerns’ implicit the enactment of a High-Level Committee connected Demographic Change magnitude to intelligence overreaction.

K. Chellappan,

Chennai