Editor,
Through your esteemed daily, I wish to apprise Bah Mohrmen of certain ground truths that the public is very much aware but sadly it is him who seems to be living in someone’s paradise. His ongoing tirade against UDP has proved his inclination of being a pseudo- intellectual whose moral high ground does not extend beyond his couch from where he formulates fact-less notions, in his indirect attempt to avenge, if not serve the beneficiary of his contributions. Now, which lobby is at play? And who is under the direction of money bags? The public is the wisest, and they know too well, that seldom such contributions come for free. The 60 seats announced by the Congress is not indicative of it’s strength, since 69 more will be eating from the same plate. The same does not apply for the UDP.
As for Regionalism, the writer has once again misled his readers into believing that UDP, by having a national outlook, i.e. the non-indigenous candidate, has no right to call itself a regional party, is obnoxious if not detrimental to the readers of this column. Collins Dictionary says: Regionalism is a strong feeling of pride or loyalty that people in a region have for that region, often including a desire to govern themselves, and region is a geographical feature. Hence if UDP, being the state recognized political party from Meghalaya is not a regional party, then Mr. Mohrmen should be appointed as the authority on political parties by the Election Commission of India.
Yours etc.,
A F Dykes.
Via email
Church and homosexuality
Editor,
I am happy that the Church is now getting involved with RTI but unhappy that it is restricted to the affairs of a private university only. There are many grey areas in the church. One of them is homosexuality. Molestation is not only about a boy doing it to a girl. We have heard of paedophiles (men who molest small boys) and we also know of gay men molesting other younger men. Such an incident happened last year in one of the colleges run by a consortium of churches. But the person/persons molested were not from Meghalaya. They were from one of the North Eastern states and so it was easy to hush it up because the students had to agree not to push the matter too hard for that would make it embarrassing for the college. Or so they were told. The molester, it is learnt, is a teacher of that college. One wonders how the matter was hushed up and that even the media had no inkling about these incidents. It is learnt that the church elders had a meeting on this issue but have not taken it seriously enough to punish the teacher.
The molester is strutting around without paying for his acts because he wields a lot of political clout and also wields influence amongst the church elders. Should the church behave like this? Even if this incident is hushed up, how do we know that the teacher will not repeat his horrific act, especially since he knows that he can walk off scot free because students are so paranoid that they will not squeak? He might fail them or take some kind of revenge. The teachers of that college are all aware of the incident/s but are tight-lipped because they probably do not want to create problems for the management. This is a serious issue and one that needs to be prised open by those who care about the future of the youth studying in Meghalaya.
Yours etc.,
J. Khongmalai,
Via email