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Why this helplessness?

For the last couple of days, Nandigram has been burning and the Central Government is silent over the matter in spite of the hue and cry witnessed. The silence is perhaps due to accepting the support of Communist parties to run the government or to take advantage in the nuclear issue from supporting parties. What is more, Taslima Nasreen residing in Kolkota is regrettable who is of course a Bangladeshi writer. Why cannot the Government send her to her own country? The Dalai Lama is taking asylum in our country without creating any problems, whereas our own people are facing a lot of troubles in the matter of Taslima. The Government should look into the matter and it better not invite unnecessary problems.

S. R. Krishna,

Berhampur

It is high time for the parents to enthuse their young children to ride bicycles to reduce traffic jam and pollution in the city. Now the college-going students have started feeling that cycle riding as something beneath their dignity. They prefer to zoom past on bikes. Their reckless driving is at times a great menace. Due to bike riding these youths fail to get the physical exercise which they could have got through walk or cycle riding. The parents should realise that by promoting cycle riding rather than handing over a bike to their child they would also be saving them from diseases like diabetes, obesity and coronary problems.

It is high time to change the psyche of youngsters so that they do start taking up cycle riding as a thing of pride for better environment of the city as well as their better health.

Saroj Mohapatra,

Berhampur

The Puri Municipality has failed to keep the holy tanks of this holy town clean. Thousands of devotees thronging Puri take ritualistic bath in these holy tanks like Swetaganga, Markanda, Indradyumna and Narendra. During most of the time of the year the water of these tanks stinks due to pollution.

After the recent Kartik Purnima festival the state of these tanks has become too pathetic. Thousands of boats made of paper, banana tree trunk and other decorative materials were floated in these tanks on Kartik Purnima day.

But these boats were not taken out of the tanks and they have started to decompose inside the tanks. Usually people also throw the discarded flowers after rituals in these tanks. Manjushree Das,

Puri

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