MyVoice: Views of our readers 06th June 2026

Listen and resolve misunderstandings

K Krishna Sagar Rao’s column on miscommunication (THI June 5) highlights a crisis that technology alone cannot explain. Daniel Goleman’s work on emotional intelligence reminds us that understanding emotions, empathy, and active listening are as important as logic and intellect. Many conflicts in families, workplaces, and public life might soften if we speak to each other instead of talking about each other.

In our quest to be right, we often forget to be kind. Humanity cannot thrive on cold logic alone. As the character TARS in Interstellar suggests, human relationships require more than rational calculations. Understanding, compassion, and respectful dialogue remain our greatest strengths.

Harsh Pawaria, Rohtak

Pradhan unmoved by NEET suicides

It is heart-breaking that Akansha Chaturvedi, an 18-year-old student from Nagpur who had appeared for the NEET -UG examination has died by suicide. In a heartrending suicide, she mentioned that she lacked the courage to write the NEET re-exam. It seems her father, a poor farmer who had suffered a paralytic attack two months ago, had borrowed Rs three lakh to cover her coaching fees. There is no doubt that the corrupt and pitiable educational system under the BJP government in the past 12 years, is solely responsible for Akansha’ death.

The present Indian educational system is soaked in the blood of innocent students like Akansha and Anita who have become sacrificial lambs. Tall leaders from the ruling dispensation are only interested in winning elections. The skewed policies in the educational system are quite irrelevant to the student community. It is also unfortunate that despite various demands for his resignation, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has not resigned from his office.

Tharcius S Fernando, Chennai-92

SEBI’s pay-ratio framework makes sense

Apropos “Take a middle path on CEO pay & job security of employees,” (THI, June 5). The argument that astronomical CEO compensation reflects global market rates conveniently ignores that these same companies rely heavily on cost-arbitrage from India’s lower-paid workforce. When that workforce bears the entire burden of cost optimisation through layoffs while leadership compensation remains untouched, it is not market efficiency — it is institutionalised inequality dressed in corporate language.

India’s IT sector cannot simultaneously claim to be a knowledge economy and treat its knowledge workers as expendable assets. A transparent, publicly disclosed pay-ratio framework mandated by SEBI would be a meaningful corrective first step.

A Senthil Kumar, Kaniyur-641659

Rethink on stock-linked compensation for CEOs

This refers to the editorial “Take a middle path on CEO pay & job security of employees.” Stock-linked compensation for CEOs creates perverse incentives — executives benefit enormously from cost-cutting measures, including mass layoffs, that temporarily inflate share prices. The worker pays the price while the boardroom books the gain.

This is not capitalism functioning well — it is governance failing quietly. Separating a greater portion of executive compensation from short-term stock movements and tying it instead to long-term employee retention would correct this fundamental misalignment meaningfully.

S P Suganya Devi, Coimbatore

Ensure job security of IT professionals

This is further to your editorial about the middle path on CEO payout, one must remember that job security of other professionals in an IT industry matters most.

The prospect of receiving a ‘pink slip’ is generally on the mind of employees, in the wake of the current AI wave across the sectors these days. Socialistic argument cannot be a barometer in a professional arena in terms of paying compensation to CEOs for the middle path to be chosen on compensation of top executives better left to the IT firms as our politicians are strongly arguing for job reservations in the IT sector.

K R Venkata Narasimhan, Madurai

Time ripe for cross-family organ donation

Andhra Pradesh’s Cabinet decision to legally recognise cross-family kidney donation for immunologically incompatible patients is a quietly transformative move that deserves far wider public attention. With 3,634 patients currently awaiting transplants across the state, the swap system addresses a critical gap that blood-type incompatibility had long created within families willing to donate but unable to proceed.

The policy change expands eligible donors to include parents, children, grandparents, and grandchildren — significantly broadening the pool at a time when the state has 209 deceased donors contributing 663 organs annually. What matters now is implementation — ensuring this newly approved framework reaches district hospitals, not merely premier urban centres. Other states should recognise this model and follow suit.

A Myilsami, Sulur (PO)-641402