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Several readers have written complaining against the comparison made between the pay of police constables and sanitation workers in Praveen Swami’s article titled “Where style has trumped substance.” (OP-ED page of November 27). No offence was meant against any section but the comparison was not warranted and should have been avoided. The Editor-in-Chief agrees with my assessment and expresses regret on behalf of the newspaper for publication of the inappropriate reference. — Readers’ Editor

The heading of a report (November 30, 2009) was “President to inaugurate 62nd World Newspaper Congress today”. It should have been “President to inaugurate 62nd World Newspaper Congress tomorrow” as mentioned in the text — that President Pratibha Patil will inaugurate the Congress on Tuesday.

The heading of a report on the Bhopal gas tragedy “No room for 3/12 in the algebra of tragedy and outrage” (November 30, 2009, page 1) led to queries on the ‘phrase’. Though 3/12 is a reference to December 3, 1984, and the word “algebra” linked to this, its usage in the heading might have been a substitute for the words “equation” or “scheme”. There are no phrases associated with the word “algebra”.

The eleventh paragraph of Arundhati Roy’s essay “The algebra of infinite justice” (The Guardian, September 29, 2001) – with the blurb “As the US prepares to wage a new kind of war, Arundhati Roy challenges the instinct for vengeance” – said: “So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the ‘massacre of innocent people’ or, if you like, ‘a clash of civilisations’ and ‘collateral damage’. The sophistry and fastidious algebra of infinite justice ....”

The Supreme Court collegium has recommended that Justice Chandramauli Kumar [C.K.] Prasad, Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court, be elevated to the Supreme Court. The first paragraph of a report “Awaiting survey report, collegium keeps Dinakaran issue pending” (November 27, 2009) mentioned it as Justice C.M. [Chandra Mohan] Prasad of the Patna High Court.

It also said that Justice C.M. Prasad is the seniormost judge of the Patna High Court. Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court Gyan Sudha Misra is the seniormost judge of the Patna High Court cadre.

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