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Over-reaction

The editorial, `Clearance and the code' (May 20), assailing the Centre over its handling of the controversy surrounding the screening of the movie The Da Vinci Code is correct in its analysis. The Government's over-reaction and the ultimate clearance of the film with a disclaimer at the beginning and end are unfortunate. The Government could have handled the episode better.

Dantu Surya Rao,
Kakinada, A.P.

You have rightly pointed out that the Government need not have given so much credence to a movie based on a work of pure fiction. While on the one hand, it might have wounded the feelings of a section of the people, on the other, banning the film would have resulted in freedom of expression being paralysed. The film has evoked only laughter in preview shows and has not taken seriously the world over.

N.R. Radhakrishnan,
Chennai

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