5 months ago
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Assam Bill
At a clip erstwhile Assam is burdened by precocious unemployment, chronic underinvestment and an administrative civilization inactive hobbled by corruption, the government’s determination to prioritise a harsh anti-polygamy instrumentality sits oddly with the State’s existent needs (Front page, November 26). Polygamy, by each credible accounts, is simply a statistically marginal practice. To elevate it into a legislative centrepiece is to mistake symbolic combat for governance.
Its value lies alternatively successful its governmental grammar. The determination extends a acquainted signifier of gestures calibrated to reassure the State’s astir vocal right-wing constituencies: from assertive eviction drives to the closure of madrasas and recurring alarms astir demographic ‘imbalance’. These interventions stock a communal logic — they foreground taste vigilance implicit developmental ambition and recast governance arsenic a signifier of ideological custodianship. The deeper nonaccomplishment is 1 of administrative focus. By devoting scarce argumentation attraction to identity-laden legislation, the authorities risks entrenching the precise improvement stagnation it claims to remedy. Assam needs transparent institutions, job-creating concern and sustained readying acold much urgently than different circular of symbolic interventions dressed up arsenic reform.
M. Jameel Ahmed,
Mysuru
Dismissal of officer
The precise strategy of spiritual activity/practice successful the equipped forces needs a relook. The subject constitution cannot instrumentality screen by stating that each unit are to travel each religions/practices. Religion/spirituality should beryllium one’s idiosyncratic choice/right and nary 1 tin compel immoderate 1 connected this successful our country. The Ministry of Defence needs to initiate a rehaul of this practice.
Prince Gnanathilagam,
Coimbatore
