Dear Editor,
Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani’s rousing 50-minute speech in the Lok Sabha on the suicide of Hyderabad scholar Rohith Vemula and the Jawaharlal Nehru University row, was quite fiery and timely.
While Irani’s address was not as erudite as the scholarly polish of Trinamool Congress MP Sugata Bose’s speech earlier in the day, what it had in aplomb was the right measure of rhetoric, armed with facts, counter-facts, politically inconvenient truths and personal jibes – all of which in unison gave Irani’s speech a potent edge.
Richa Jain
Jammu
