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Corrections and clarifications

In a report “Caste has divided society: judge” (April 14, 2008), the eighth paragraph was “The court asked the Centre to deliberate whether the reservation policy followed since Independence had been effective in achieving the desired result. If after nearly six decades the objectives had been achieved, necessarily the need for its continuance warrants deliberations.” It should have been “… the objectives had not been achieved.”

The fourth paragraph in a report “Quota judgment seen as fine balancing act” (April 12, 2008) said “One of the points advanced by the petitioners who challenged the quota law was that the benefit of reservation could not be extended in perpetuity. Besides directing the exclusion of the ‘creamy layer’ from among OBCs, the court has suggested that there should be a periodic review by the government after five years of whether the system of reservation has worked well.” The Legal Correspondent clarifies that it is true that the Chief Justice of India, K.G. Balakrishnan, in his judgment says there should be a review after 10 years. But as Justice Arijit Pasayat, Justice C.K. Thakker and Justice Dalveer Bhandari had said that there must be a review after 5 years, the CJI accepted the majority view.

The New York Times in its “Corrections – For the Record” column says “The Link by Link column on Monday (‘Link by Link — He Wrote 200,000 Books but Computers did some of the Work’, April 14, 2008), about collecting publicly available data and using computers to turn the information into a book, misstated the title of Philip M. Parker, who has used the process to generate more than 200,000 books. He is the chaired professor of management science at Insead, a business school based near Paris — not the school’s Eli Lilly professor in innovation, business and society.” The article appeared in The Hindu with the title “For made-to-order books” (“Newscape” page, April 15, 2008).

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