A humbling experience for us
I t’s amazing that I always see His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, living a humble and simple life (‘Facebook picture: His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum and his son Zayed out at lunch’, Gulf News, November 21). He always meets and has conversations with any resident that he comes across in the country. It’s all very humbling. There’s something very comforting to see this picture of him eating with his family at a normal restaurant that many of us like to go to. He is a good and kind Ruler. From Mr Kazitauhidhul Alam UAE Facebook comment
A beautiful simplicity
I t’s amazing that I don’t think I’ve seen any leader and his family having food at a normal restaurant. This shows the beautiful simplicity, even as a Ruler of the country. I have so much respect for this man. From Mr Mohammad Fahad Al Harith UAE
Down to Earth
I t’s a very cute photograph of Shaikh Mohammad and his son. It proves that even a leader of this magnitude is down to Earth, close to his own people and not keeping away. There are many other countries that could learn from his example. From Ms Agatha UAE
We must support India’s PM
I refer to Mihir Sharma’s article in Gulf News on the Indian currency decision (‘India’s currency move is loaded with risks’, Gulf News, November 21). He is utterly negative throughout the article and never bothered to mention the counterfeit currency floating in India.
He talks about long queues and inconveniences faced by the middle income
group and the poor. But, the middle income group and the poor are immune to such inconveniences and the politician and big businessmen never stand in the queue even if he visits the bank for one thing or the other. Demonetisation is a bitter medicine we have to take to become healthy. Black money cannot be eradicated 100 per cent since some of it is converted into property, jewellery and gold. But, the hoarded black money has become invalid. Even if it is declared and tax is paid 30 to 40 per cent, that means 30 to 40 per cent of black money has been eradicated. The planning of demonetisation cannot be better. If you say that it should have been better than this, then the cat would have been out of the bag and all would have taken steps to convert their black money beforehand. We have now a strong and selfless Prime Minister who has a vision. We have to support him. From Mr M. N. Rai UAE
Safety first
I t is shocking to hear that three children died after they fell into a 50-metre deep well (‘Three children die in Al Ain after falling into unused well’, Gulf News, November 25). The children ran after a cat, and followed it when it jumped onto the wooden cover of an abandoned well. The lid hadn’t been replaced for about 20 years! It is, of course, a disaster, and sadly, one that could have been avoided. From Mr Sunny Joseph Mala Kerala, India
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