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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

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Corrections and clarifications

The month Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar was assassinated was incorrectly mentioned as October 2005 ("Choices before the LTTE", editorial page, May 27, 2006). It should have been August 2005.

The sculptor has been forgotten, says a reader. This detail was missing in the report "Statue of M.S. unveiled at Tirupati" (May 29, 2006). P.V. Rama Rao, a sculptor from Kakinada, created the Rs.15 lakh bronze statue of the Carnatic singer M.S. Subbulakshmi. The statue is 11 feet tall and weighs four tonnes. A Hyderabad-based industrialist and a member of TTD trust board N. Nageswara Rao met the expenses of making the statue.

The sentence in the New York Times report "Can Nadal, Henin-Hardene repeat last year's feat?" (Sport, May 28, 2006) was: "Other seeded men have tougher opening hurdles: none tougher than Fernando Gonzalez (9), the huge-hitting Chilean who faces the struggling but still dangerous Marat Safin (3). David Nalbandian plays the promising Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka, ... ." A reader says that while the seeding of Gonzalez, i.e. (9), is correct, Safin is unseeded, and not (3). The reader is right. It should have been David Nalbandian (3) and Marat Safin (-) or unseeded. The (3) got transferred while editing.

In "Postcard from Hampshire — Literary trail" (The Hindu-Magazine, May 28, 2006), a reader says that the sentence "... a compelling signpost dramatically proclaimed the bailiwick as Jane Austen's Country" should have been "... a compelling signpost dramatically proclaimed the country as Jane Austen's bailiwick". Also, it is "insouciant days" and not "insouciance days of youth". The sentence was: "It is here she spent the insouciance days of youth and then metamorphosed into a mature writer ... ."

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