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Corrections and clarifications

* In an article “Bottom of the pyramid: hopes & despairs” (“Open Page”, December 25, 2007), the second paragraph was: “A scene that portrays, nay, characterises the situation in France just before the Revolution. The powers that be did not realise the imminent catastrophe! They paid dearly for their short-sightedness! (I am incidentally amused at a clipping from a newspaper on a Minister from Andhra Pradesh. He seems to have advised the poor, who were complaining about the rising price of rice, ‘Why do you insist on rice? It is better to have a chicken, two eggs and a glass of milk every day. It is wholesome food …’) What followed in France was very painful bloodshed and slaughter of innocent and uninvolved people. I see such a situation, clearly depicted by those immortal sentences in the book, developing very fast in India at this moment.” A reader points out that the reference should have been to the Kerala (Food and Civil Supplies, Consumer Protection, Dairy Development, Milk Co-operatives, and Animal Husbandry) Minister C. Divakaran. The author of the article, K. Chandrasekaran, says he stands corrected.

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