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Banaras calling

I bought a Lenovo-3000 Y-410 series laptop (S.No.MA-8A39C) in January this year from MSM Computers, Varanasi. There was a free gift scheme from Lenovo on every laptop for this series and I got myself registered for the same.

I got a mail from Lenovo informing me that I had won one Philips MP3 player for which they wanted some documents such as invoice copy, redemption code and laptop serial number copy along with a demand draft for Rs.500. Promptly I sent all these documents, but I have not received any MP3 player from Lenovo so far.

I have also e-mailed several reminders to the customer care department of the company but there has been no response.

Maybe I will get my MP3 player now?

Ravi Kumar Gangwar,

Department of Electronics Engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

Missing prizes

My daughter Anju Gupta won Warg Paheli quiz No.25 of Sahitya Amrit, the Hindi monthly magazine of Prabhat Prakashan, Delhi, in September/October last year. The prize she was promised was a book worth Rs.200, "Krishna", on the life of Draupadi. But despite three reminders during the past six months, she has not received the book so far.

My son Dinesh Kumar Gupta too won books worth Rs.500 in Outlook Warg Paheli No.125 in Outlook Hindi weekly sponsored by Prabhat Prakashan. He asked for Prabhat Advanced Hindi-English Dictionary costing Rs.400 and another book worth Rs.100 on famous scientists and their inventions, but till date the books have not shown up.

We look forward to getting the prizes now.

R. N. P. Gupta,

Gandhi Nagar (W), Second Lane, Third House, Hazaribagh – 825 301, Jharkhand.

Hello, Vodafone….

I have a Vodafone mobile connection (*****35210). Recently I activated “Apne minutes” service on my phone that is supposed to provide free talk time for calling any local Vodafone numbers between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. However, on March 20, when I made one such call, Rs.48 was deducted from my account.

I called Vodafone to complain and their customer care executive confessed that it was a mistake on their part. He promised to credit the amount to my account within the next 24 hours. But nothing of that sort happened. I called them again, only to be put on hold for a long period this time. Thereafter I repeatedly called their customer care number and spoke to seven different executives. All they did was give me different excuses and not fix my problem. Now I can’t even access the customer care number because of some problem in their system

I urge Vodafone to refund the excess amount immediately and furnish an explanation for such unprofessional behaviour.

Akshi Goel,

28/10 Shakti Nagar, Delhi – 110 007.

Ancient language

The six crore Telugu population has been urging the Centre to declare Telugu an ancient and classical language. As it happens, Telugu is the largest spoken language after Hindi and has absorbed the largest number of words from other languages, including English, without obliterating their pronunciation or meaning. It was the first native language to go into print in the 18th Century and its vocabulary and grammar have been derived from the most ancient of languages — Sanskrit. The language is so very rich in art and culture also. Carnatic music has been developed from Telugu and experimental cinema, unmasking social evils and exposing injustice being done to the poor, was first made in Telugu without caring about box office collections. It is about time the Centre conceded the longstanding demand of the Telugu population all the way from Delhi to Andhra Pradesh and beyond.

G.H. Rama Rao,

Camp: 1199, IFFCO Colony, Sector 17-B, Gurgaon - 122 001.

Abolish it

The Haryana Government’s move to revive the post of Pro Vice-Chancellor in the State’s four universities at Kurukshetra, Rohtak, Sirsa and Khanpur Kalan is unwarranted. The rationale behind the decision is that since the workload of V-Cs has increased in recent years, the Pro V-C would share his duties and functions.

However, the move may be counter-productive because often the Pro V-Cs tend to act as anti V-Cs, resulting in creation of two parallel power centres and turning the academic platform into a political arena. The Pro V-Cs come to consider themselves as V-Cs in waiting. The clash of interests between the two hinders smooth functioning of the university.

That was the reason why the previous Chautala regime abolished the post in 2003. Most of the 40-odd universities in the country which had a provision for Pro V-C have abolished the post. The Hooda Government too should reconsider its decision in the larger interest of education.

Hemant Kumar,

414, Sector 7, Urban Estate, Ambala City, Haryana.

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