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cartoon controversy. You generally write withmore nuance. In fact, the AISA-LDTF statementon this issue is the only balanced and well-argued article (on the cartoon issue) that Ihave read till now. How will the secular liberalin you react to cartoons on Nehru involvingLady Mountba�en and Kumari MridulaSarabhai, and ones depicting Maulana Azadas a goat? I wonder why the secular liberalIndian has a different yardstick for Dalits andAmbedkar?

ASHOKANKUR DATTA, ON EMAIL

DAMMED AT SIGHTRefer to ‘Damned: Holy River, UnholyMess’ by Brijesh Pandey, 2 June.

Your article made for an excellent read as itlaid out in great detail how the governmentof U�arakhand, BJP or Congress, are destroy-ing a river by building countless dams. Youhave to see to believe the total disregard theyhave for the river. The whole area is con-verted into a potential disaster zone. But thegovernment, busy counting the money, isblinded by the greed and has no concerns forthousands who have been displaced andhave nowhere to go. I would urge the parlia-mentarians to listen to Rewati Raman, whodespite the late timing, finally called Tehrihis biggest mistake.

MANISH KAUSHAL, ON EMAIL

It was shocking to read your article.Incalculable damage has already been doneto the Ganga, and the government’s policyof dams is nothing but a catastrophe. Is the U�arakhand government or the environ-ment ministry listening to Rewati RamanSingh calling Tehri dam the biggest mistakeof his life? About how he was taken for a royal

KEEPING SOCIAL TABRefer to ‘The Free Radical’ by AshokMalik, 2 June.

At a time when cricket is under a scanner andplagued with controversies, TEHELKA has donewell to present Ashis Nandy, who usedcricket as a device through which a larger so-cial point could be impressed upon. Perhaps,the mess created by IPL in cricket representstoday’s mess of the ‘Indian Political Lapse’.

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SKETCHY POLITICOSRefer to ‘Drawing a Dangerous Line’ byShoma Chaudhury, 26 May.

A very comprehensive and objective article!The inputs from other cartoonists gave thearticle the requisite value addition. The par-liamentarians have lost their focus; theysuffer from an immense inferiority complex,resulting in a high degree of insecurity. Andthus resort to such cheap tactics to take thea�ention away from national issues.

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I am a bit disappointed by your article on the

Thank you for the well-etched portrait of Ashis Nandy. Iwas sure my idea to understand India through cinemaand cricket came from someone else. I had no clue it wasNandy. Still, I disagree with him. I don’t think there wasa grand strategy for the British to popularise cricket thanfootball. Cricket was just more convenient as a game.

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knows his position, much like he did sixyears ago. In July 2006, Modi and Gadkarihad shared the dais in Mumbai, when theGujarat chief minister had spoken at Shan-mukhananda Hall. The occasion was theBJP’s anti-terrorism rally after the Mumbaitrain bombings.

Modi used his trademark mannerismto focus on his favourite subject — Islamistjihad. Sitting on the dais, and very incon-sequential to the event, was Gadkari, the

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Modi is ready to takeover. Is the BJP willing?The recently-concluded BJPnational executive would suggest that Narendra Modi isthe party’s most popular man.But not everyone inside wouldagree, says RANA AYYUB

WHEN NARENDRA MODI stood upto deliver his speech this pastweek at a public meeting, fol-lowing the BJP national execu-

tive at the Kamgar ground in Mumbai’sParel area, he was welcomed with thun-derous applause. After Modi, it was BJPPresident Nitin Gadkari’s turn to speak.But by then a section of the crowd had already begun to move out.

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PHOTOS: SYED MAZHAR ALITEHELKA 9 JUNE 201210

IT WAS almost sunset on Monday whenYS Jaganmohan Reddy reached Chan-chalguda Central Jail in Hyderabad.As he got out of the car, escorted by

cops in mufti, two of them tried to hold hisarms. Immediately, Jagan bristled withanger. He gestured his hand to each ofthem to indicate ‘touch me not’. And thenin a flash, he adopted his familiar politicianposture, greeting onlookers with foldedhands and a wry smile.

As he entered the prison through thesmall gate, the Member of Parliament fromKadapa was now transformed to Undertrial No. 6093. The man who dreamt

of succeeding his father as chief ministerof Andhra Pradesh, now reduced to a special status prisoner.

There was a transformation outside aswell. Telugu Desam supremo ChandrababuNaidu found the spring in his steps. Hisbody language exuded optimism and histongue the bite, which he delivered to television crews, comparing Jagan withforest brigand Veerappan.

“Veerappan was also popular. He wouldhave even won a Parliament seat in hisarea, had he contested. Does that makehim right?” asks Naidu, pointing to thechoice of Jagan’s candidates in the Assem-

bly byelections. “Balineni Srinivas Reddyis a land grabber. The Tirupati candidatesold Lord Venkateswara’s tickets. InMacherla, Ramakrishna Reddy is a knowndacoit, in Udayagiri, Chandrasekhar Reddyhas been attacking people.” Ready with alog of Jagan’s alleged misdeeds, Naiduknows this is the moment to seize.

“Jagan’s scam is bigger than 2G or CWGor Adarsh. For the past eight years inAndhra Pradesh, they have looted publicproperty. Jalayagnam (irrigation projectsscheme) became dhanayagnam. Theyspent 72,000 crore and not even one acrehas come under irrigation,” says Naidu. 

The Many Equationsof Jagan’s Arrest

Jagan Reddy’s arrest has singed both him and the Congress in the state. So who will it really benefit? TS SUDHIR reports

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