SWAMILOOK

MY UNPUBLISHED LETTERS

1. Letter to Times of India (e'mailed on 06-29-'07)

QUOTE:

THE REPORT THAT COMMECIAL VEHICLES ARE TO GO OFF ROADS FROM JULY, 1 (TOI JUNE 29) WOULD NOT AT ALL HAVE SURPRISED THOSE IN GOVERNANCE AS WELL AS THE COMMON MAN. INDISPUTABLY, THE PROPOSAL THAT THE VEHICLES SHOULD COMPULSORILY INSTALL SPEED GOVERNORS HAS BEEN CONCEIVED OF IN THE LARGER INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE. AS SUCH, ANY RESISTANCE TO THE MOVE FROM A LIMITED SECTION, THAT TOO WITH PATENTLY NO RHYME OR REASON, OUGHT NOT DETER THE GOVERM\NENT FROM GOING AHEAD AND THERBY DEMONSTARATING THAT IT HAS THE COURAGE OF ITS CONVICTION. THE MOVE ALSO REQUIRES, RATHER DESERVES, TO BE FULLY SUPPORTED BY ONE AND ALL. FOR, MOST IMPORTANTLY, THERE COULD CONCEIVABLY BE NO LEGAL OR MORAL SANCTION OR WARRANT FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO EVEN DEFER ANY LONGER THE BRINGING INTO FORCE OF THE MANDATE; BESIDES, OF COURSE, ENSURING A STRICT ENFORCEMENT OF THE MANDATE.

UNQUOTE

PS: Soon thereafter, the concerned authority has, in its wisdom(!?), put the proposal in cold storage, for reasons known only to it.