The MEA is taking the wrong guidelines and operating under flawed assumptions. This is being said in the context of the objections to the Singapore PM's statement that close to 50% of legislators in the Indian Parliament have criminal cases against them. Fact and truth cannot be denied. Thus objecting to such comments from the larger world community sounds churlish. Where on one side we say that that we need to engage with the world, do we not need to understand and maybe anticipate that they will comment on our society. If we do not want the world to pass comments on us, we need to set high standards of conduct and behaviour.
S Kamat, Alto Santa Cruz
