Antara Dev Sen

Apr 28, 2010
Letters to Editor

Letters to Editor

Antara Dev Sen

Justice: Doomed to be delayed

Oh bother. A Cabinet reshuffle seems to be coming up. We wait. Like hungry guests wait for their food to be brought back at a once grand but now shoddy restaurant after some spirited soul demands that the stained tablecloths be replaced by clean ones.

The power brokers

My overall business fall down is due to the media entry,” wrote Sudipta Sen in his curious letter to the CBI. This is not funny, coming from the man behind the `1,200 crore Saradha chit fund scam. In fact it is tragic. This scam reveals not just how easily corrupt politicians and traders can rob poor people of their life’s savings in India, it also reveals the fearless use of media in such public crimes.

When I spent some 18 months in London in 1995-96 in the role of a foreign correspondent for an Indian newspaper, there was one issue that dominated “high politics” in Westminster: the European Union.

What Angelina Jolie did by declaring to the world on Tuesday that she had had bilateral prophylactic mastectomies — surgical removal of both breasts without evidence of breast cancer in either — is being seen by many as an act of courage. Her decision is sure to go a long way in creating awareness.