allegation on Jawaharlal – This has now become a predictable cycle in our political discourse, a political paradox: after a few days of silence, a spokesperson of the ruling party comes out again with another allegation on Jawaharlal Nehru. The pattern is so rehearsed that it seems less like political commentary and more like a manufactured business of blame-mongering.

This deliberate repetition ignores a simple truth: a politician should be evaluated in the context of his time, not in the comfort of later times. Nehru’s decisions may not have been correct, but weaponizing them endlessly is neither honest nor intellectually serious.

Nehru’s books remain intellectual milestones, encyclopedic in their comprehensiveness and deeply humane in their moral imagination. His leadership in Parliament reflects a temperament we rarely see today.

He never suppressed dissent; He encouraged it. He allowed debate in the Lok Sabha even on the most sensitive issues, including the 1962 war.

Compare this with the current political environment, where even routine parliamentary business has been reduced to lip service. When every political challenge is reduced to attacking a leader who died six decades ago, it raises a serious question: is this governance or is it an obsession? Aditya Das, Bhawali, Uttarakhand A public health issue The air pollution crisis prevalent in urban India is not a new problem.

Nor is there a lack of appropriate and quick measures to control it. Rarely has any metropolitan city in India consistently had a ‘good’ air quality label in recent years, and not much has been done to improve it. The possibility of the very air we breathe becoming a threat to public health deserves immediate action, rather than the casual neglect it is receiving from everyone fundamentally concerned.

The government and authorities should make a foolproof plan which aims to solve this issue legitimately. Tanisha Bamnodkar, Thane, Maharashtra.