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the majority in a collaborative can we realise the mission of Jaish-e-Mohammad.
endeavour. The brittle and leaky Swachh Bharat without putting China’s success in having
edifice of the social media needs an end to the inhuman practice? its will prevail at the UNSC and
to be demolished and a new jagaNNadh S adopting a defiant stand despite
framework has to be put in place the overwhelming support that
to rein in the propagation of Kumbh Mela experience India had on the issue at the
extreme and virulent ideologies. is difficult to forget UNSC is a clear indication of
VN MukuNdarajaN With reference to the online report “Prayagraj its ruthless, unabashed ambi-
Kumbh Mela 2019 makes to Guinness World tion to supersede the US as the
Records” by Tehelka Web Desk (March 3)
The mass shooting cannot be I am a 24 year-old Argentin- next superpower. It also casts a
simply termed as a mindless act ian, who visited India recently dark shadow on its attempts at
of terrorism or hatred which has along with a group of 15 of my emerging as a responsible global
its roots in growing hatred. That countrymen. Delhi was our first power. India can take solace
the alleged shooter livestreamed destination, but we were headed from the fact that the move to
his dastardly act online is a clear to Varanasi and then Haridwar, ban Azhar was co-sponsored
reflection of the extent to which where we would live one of the by other members of the UNSC.
the dark side to the Internet has most sublime experiences of our Therefore, China’s stand also
permeated the physical world. lives: the Kumbh Mela. humiliates them.
Social media often allow users to My vision of what it would NaliNi VijayaraghaVaN
upload videos and pictures with be had been largely shaped by
ease, creating an undesirable pictures on Google. However, China is at it again. It is clear that
impact on the ground. The onus once we reached, it would be China has its own interests in
on social media giants to curb putting it mildly if we said that it mind, afraid that terror groups
violent content and stop its shar- was quite an experience. Parts of can affect its economic ambi-
ing on its platform. it were more like Coachella than tions. China’s statement is an
M jeyaraM a religious festival. After several insult to all other UNSC member
attempts to cross the key bridge countries. They should still try to
The tragedy in New Zealand were unsuccessful, we decided make it see reason.
comes just after Pulwama, which to do something very Argentine- kV SeetharaMaiah
is another ghastly incident of an: integrate ourselves with the
violence. Extremism appears musicians who accompanied India’s continued concilia-
to be spreading exponentially the parade of floats carrying tory approach toward China
across the globe even in places the sadhus. Contrary to what exposes the fact that New Delhi
where its presence was thought we thought, no one insulted us; lacks any leverage with it on
to be the least. We cannot go no one wanted to get us out of Azhar and that Beijing inter-
along like this. Global leaders there. We would say that in India prets India’s pussyfooting as a
must speak in one voice. being a foreigner can evoke sign of weakness. Unless India
Sayooj P something beautiful and pure. sees Pakistan and China as one
In that massive celebration hyphenated strategic entity
Technological solutions to this was even more clear. The and takes an integrated policy
curb manual scavenging Kumbh Mela was an experi- approach, piecemeal efforts will
With reference to the column ‘The Last Word’ remain ineffective and even
titled “Manual scavenging must become thing of ence difficult to forget. We have
the past” by Abdul Wasey (March 31) returned greatly enriched. counter-productive.
It would indeed be a tragedy rocio PeleSSoN r SiVakuMar
and a nightmare if the problem
of open defecation is viewed China abuses its power as China has proved how vested
merely as a health issue, neglect- permanent UNSC member interests hold more importance
ing the greater social problem It is appalling that for the than world peace. But India
of manual scavenging, which is fourth time, China has blatantly shouldn’t be discouraged by this.
linked to caste. abused the power it enjoys After all, past experiences show
The efforts of the government as a permanent member of that placing terrorists on a list
and social workers like Bezwada the United Nations Security does little to combat terrorism.
Wilson will be hampered if Council to block the proposal India should strengthen internal
tested technological solutions to proscribe Masood Azhar, security so that attacks can be
are not put in place for faecal the founder-leader of the prevented in the future.
removal and treatment. How Pakistan-based terror group, the diVya SiNgla

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