Dear Sir,
I twisted my hands and fingers after following Robinson’s tips to handwash (Six steps to good hand washing, May 6). His first five steps were fine and I had no major problem in following them. It was the sixth step that put me in trouble. “To close the tap finally, use one of the elbows to prevent microbes thriving on the tap reaching the hand,” Robinson writes.
I tried and tried using my elbow to close the tap but I am sorry to say I failed. Could Robinson give some training classes on closing taps using the elbow or any body part other than the hands? Until that time, my hands will be the playground of all those microbes living on taps.
BN
(Full name and address supplied)
Singh govt is graft-ridden
Dear Sir,
It is shameful to know that a veteran Congress leader like Pawan Bansal could involve his family members in the affairs of the largest employer in the world – the Indian Railways. No doubt, such cases may have happened in the past too, but they were never reported.
The work ethics of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the crime watchdog of the Indian government, have come under scanner with its role in corruption investigations raising many questions.
Indians were once very proud to equate CBI with the FBI of the US or the KGB of the erstwhile USSR. Now, with reports of the opposition labelling CBI as “Congress Bureau of Investigation”, its reputation is undermined.
The people of India are told that the Council of Ministers “swim and sink together”, ie. the entire Cabinet works as a team, and its decisions are defended by each and every minister. Article 75(3) clearly mentions that the Council of Ministers is collectively responsible. So instead of shouting, protesting and debating in the media, the opposition parties may introduce a resolution of no-confidence motion in parliament to defeat the Congress-led government at the Centre.
Indian democracy has become like a “board game”, where manipulation of numbers can fetch victory, with the corrupt people ruling the roost.
With corruption at its record level (the 3G scam, coal-gate and rail-gate, etc) the Manmohan Singh government has no moral right to seek re-elections in the 2014 polls.
Rakesh Verma
Doha
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