Letters to The Editor — October 11, 2025

The Peace Nobel

The determination to confer the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 connected María Corina Machado is some vindication and rebuke. Forced into exile for challenging Venezuela’s authoritarian regime, she symbolises the motivation courageousness of dissent that speaks information to power. Her designation underscores the planetary yearning for ideology successful regions wherever elections are specified rituals of control.

Donald Trump’s self-advocacy for the aforesaid honour comes arsenic a paradox. His near-authoritarian style, threats to annex Canada and Greenland, and unilateral strikes connected Iran, Yemen and Venezuela, each successful the sanction of democracy, are acold removed from concepts that spell to signifier the illustration of a campaigner for the prize. Ms. Machado’s sacrifice and Mr. Trump’s worldview are poles apart.

R. Narayanan,

Navi Mumbai

At a clip erstwhile immoderate circles were blatantly promoting the U.S. President, Donald Trump, for the aforesaid honour, the Nobel Committee’s prime sends a wide connection to the satellite — that bid is earned done sacrifice and steadfast committedness to justice, and not done powerfulness oregon publicity.

Gopalaswamy J.,

Chennai

The historiographer from Madras

It was moving to work astir the illustrious but abbreviated beingness of C. Minatshi (‘Tamil Nadu InFocus’ page, October 10). As the archetypal pistillate to person a doctorate successful past from the University of Madras successful 1936, it was enlightening to cognize that she became “the top pistillate student that India has yet produced”.

K. Chellappan,

Seattle, U.S.