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Tuesday, Jul 26, 2005

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Chote miya bade miya For the time being...

Chote miya bade miya

Turn all criminals, terrorists, naxals, corrupt politicians and officials and other goondas into Lilliputs. So that the police can easily put them behind bars and barricade them from wielding influence.

K.V. Mallikarjun Rao Mudiraj,

Secunderabad

Honey, it's the money

I will ask the time machine to revert 100 years backwards so all the money our present CMs, MLAs and other corrupt people have will become useless as our currency will be of no value (they have only 1, 2 paise, etc.) and also they will not have the pub culture. Heroines will lack beauty parlours and as there are no luxurious cars they will ride bicycles like others, and as there are no TVs and cable connections all people whether rich or poor will play ashta chamma, cards, listen to burra kathas and chit-chat near their verandahs as time-pass. By this they will know that money has no value and only live life as it comes and respect all human beings.

K. Srinivas Rao,

Hyderabad

Newton are you there?

By going back in time I would bring scientists like Einstein, Newton and inventors to my home and make new discoveries with them. Get diamonds and gold from Sri Krishnadevaraya empire and bring back extinct creatures like dinosaurs and white rhinos and domesticate them.

T. Vinod Kumar,

Anantapur

Garuda against graft

Alter the present Govt. and make President as Emperor, PM as King as it was in olden days. To eliminate the corruption and wickedness of the present world adopt the punishments as stated in the GARUDA PURANAM as in the film Aparichithudu. Then no one will commit mistakes. To get the feeling of past establish GURUKULAMS and shun the corporate institutions. Every student should be made to learn VEDAS , UPANISHADS and of course GARUDA PURANAM should also be included in the syllabus.

B. Ganesh Babu,

Vaddeswaram

Jest idea

Recruit court jesters to replace idiot box, danseuses to eliminate cinema and quacks to reduce the population. Who can complain against unemployment?

Didla Sheela,

Secunderabad

Bada problem

Ask time machine to demolish all big structures in Hyderabad and Secunderabad and raise trees instead to give a green look around so that no water problem will arise.

G.Jagadish,

Secunderabad

Ban is no bane

Put a ban on all types of vehicles, only `pushpaka vimanams' to be used as means of transport. No pollution, no traffic snarls and no accidents because there is plenty of space in the sky. No complaints of bad roads and taxes too.

Sathyavathi,

Hyderabad

Good ole times

Time Machine... Beware of its controls ... else one may land in a perilous period in the history. There is no point to be in the times of world wars and famines.

Better make an excursion to an ancient kingdom... we can buy the precious stones in the open markets as they were sold in heaps like vegetables. Further being in a primitive society where the mode of transport was horse drawn cart... would certainly protect one from the onslaught of the never-ending raise in petrol prices... `I don't have time' would be a phrase that would never be used, as there would be no more TV serials that are stretched out years together. There would be enough time to receive and entertain guests. Even silence would also sound mellifluous, as there would be no cacophonic sounds that are at present erroneously termed music.

T.Sreenivasa Reddy,

Anantapur

Return of the yore

If I sit on a time machine, I would turn the calendar backwards to relive the days of yore. Cars, autos and buses would be off the roads and in will enter bullock carts and ghoda gadis so the soaring cost of petrol will no longer create a flutter. Cooking would be done on the traditional chulhas so the ever-rising price of LPG need not cause any chintas. Lanterns, candles and lamps will adorn our home so we need not grope in darkness due to sudden power cuts. Good old pigeons will be our messengers to avoid poor postal services and mails carrying viruses.

Usha Rajagopalan,

Secunderabad

Wear it softly

We Indians are really known for our software and computer knowledge. So why not use our strength and install a software in our hearts to make it pure. Also install an anti-virus element, which does not allow bugs to creep into our heart. But the problem is that on installing the software, the message our body flashes is - sorry for the inconvenience, but no brain and heart found.

Pooja Gupta,

Secunderabad

Hit the caves

Prefer to go back to cave-man ages, where the house rents won't bother much. One can go there with a few latest designer clothes, as they suit well to that era. My second choice is to go to stone ages, where my wife cannot even think of jewellery.

D.V.G.Sankararao,

Nellimarla

No castaway please!

I wonder if I can get back to the age where early man started inventing things to make his life better. When we look at our every day gadgets, I really feel the early man must have racked his brain to come out with a solution to the problems he faced then. It might be a coincidence/accident/problem, which made him come out with such neat systems in use now. I just want to get into the time machine and zoom in where the early man was in a serious thought process inventing new things, but definitely would not like to stay back because I can't imagine myself as Tom Hanks on the marooned island!!!

Haritha Evani,

Hyderabad

Awake my countrymen!

Where the mind is without fear,

Where the currency has no value,

Where there are no never-ending meaningless teleserials,

Where there are no story lacking films,

Where there are no strikes and bandhs

Where caste, creed, race, religion vanish,

Where the corruption loses its presence

Take my country to that world!

S.S.Prabhakara Rao,