Kerala CM selection
Ultimately, the All India Congress Committee has succeeded successful selecting the astir suitable person for the station of Chief Minister of Kerala. V.D. Satheesan had already served efficaciously arsenic the Leader of the Opposition during the erstwhile regime, gaining invaluable administrative and governmental experience. Moreover, successful the precocious concluded Assembly elections, the Congress-led UDF secured a resounding triumph nether his leadership, intelligibly reflecting the assurance reposed successful him by some the enactment and the people.
At the aforesaid time, it would not beryllium due for leaders to aspire to the highest bureau simply connected the ground of their presumption arsenic Members of Parliament oregon their proximity to the Congress precocious command. Leadership opportunities should besides beryllium extended to those who show the capability, vision, and intellect required to govern the State effectively.
Basavaraj N. Akki,
Dharwad, Karnataka
Message and reaction
While the volition down the Prime Minister’s caller entreaty urging citizens to conserve substance and debar ostentation and luxury is commendable, it has inadvertently triggered panic among immoderate sections of the public, starring to large-scale stockpiling of petrol and diesel. Such behaviour not lone disrupts the proviso concatenation but besides creates unnecessary fearfulness and instability successful the market.
Panic-driven request and hoarding tin rapidly crook a manageable concern into a existent and wide shortage, contempt the availability of capable reserves. In this context, the media indispensable dispersed consciousness astir the existent substance concern and pass citizens astir what they tin do. A well-informed citizenry tin assistance forestall hoarding, guarantee equitable distribution, and support calm.
Anushk Singh,
Raipur, Chhattisgarh
Floor trial and governance
That Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay and the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam-led confederation won the level trial aft days of hectic governmental enactment is welcome. One cannot contradict the important relation played by societal media successful the phenomenal occurrence of the actor-turned-politician’s enactment wrong a abbreviated span of time. On the flip side, societal media algorithms thin to polarise radical towards utmost viewpoints.
In crisp contrast, quality reports successful the accepted people media often bespeak crushed realities much accurately. The balanced mindset of a ample conception of Tamil Nadu’s voters is evident from the information that rather a fewer did not enactment the TVK successful the election. In this context, Mr. Vijay, arsenic the elected Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, has a work and work to promote regular engagement with people media among the radical helium has present politically mobilised. In addition, helium should wage attraction to salient voices successful the accepted people media. Such a determination would assistance young parties specified arsenic the TVK broaden their outreach among a wider conception of voters.
A. Venkatasubramanian,
Tiruchi, Tamil Nadu
A definite acceptable of images
The article, “When grief has a face” (Open Page, May 10), was moving. Several photographs person captured the earthy emotion, tragedy, and chaos of India’s darkest moments, serving arsenic enduring and unfiltered records of history. When 1 thinks of tragic images etched successful nationalist memory, photographs by the legendary photojournalist, Raghu Rai, instantly travel to mind. His photographs pursuing the 1984 Bhopal state calamity stay among the astir haunting depictions of the disaster. Similarly, his screen photograph aft Indira Gandhi’s assassination is inactive regarded arsenic 1 of India’s astir memorable images of grief.
R. Sivakumar,
Chennai

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