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How Readers responded to Saisuresh Sivaswamy's recent columns

Date sent: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 17:26:54 +0800
From: "P.B.Krishnaswamy" <pibik@giasmd01.vsnl.net.in>
Subject: S Sivaswamy's column on Bihar

I enjoyed reading it.

P B Krishnaswamy

Date sent: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:16:02 PDT
From: "hemant kothavade" <hemant_k@hotmail.com>
Subject: For Saisuresh Sivaswamy

Hello Saisuresh,

I am writing to thank you for your insightful and thoughtful columns. They are very objective and clear. Please keep up the good work. Do not be deterred by the lack of e-mails addressed to you. Usually the columns with extreme and flamboyant views generate responses from core supporters and opponents of that extreme ideology. I am sure there are many readers who appreciate your analysis.

Hemant Kothavade

Date sent: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 21:39:06 +0530
From: "scmisra" <scmisra@bom2.vsnl.net.in>
Subject: Saisuresh Sivaswamy's Circle of Treason

After going through your column, I, along with some other fellow Rediff subscribers, thought of unsubscribing your magazine. But after discussions, we have decided to desist from it, and only express our views and reactions on the subject.

Your column is in bad taste and seems to be politically motivated to run down the BJP-led coalition government. To expose the Bihar government's false claim that the law and order situation in that state is not bad enough to warrant promulgation of Article 356, the Centre would now do well to withdraw the CRPF and other central forces forthwith from Bihar and let the state handle the situation.

The central government may also remain a mute spectator to the present situation to see it fast deteriorating to the extent of total anarchy till such a time as the RJD splits and the break-away group begs for the Centre to intervene. Please note that the governor of a state, being the representative of the President, is supposed to provide the latter necessary inputs for decision-making and, therefore, if he attaches greater credibility to Opposition parties and media reports than to the governor's report, without himself even visiting the state for a day to acquaint himself of the ground realities, he is obviously compromising the high office he holds. Mr Sivaswamy needs to be told these elementary things.

Sharad C Misra

Saisuresh Sivaswamy