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Rushdie’s touch
This refers to the interview with Salman Rushdie, ‘Imagining the self and the world’ (April 13). It really gave a brief but illuminating introduction to his latest work. Rushdie again proves his capacity to create beauty out of brutal historic moments.
K.P. Ajith Kumar,
Kollam
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Why it works
With reference to Sadaf Siddique’s article “Assisted marriage”, in arranged and love marriages, temperamental compatibility between the spouses play a vital role. The spouses should shun their egos as a marriage, after all, is a meeting of minds, not horoscopes. And certainly matrimony is not a matter of money alone.
K.Pradeep
Chennai
Arranged marriages are indeed evolving these days. More and more couples prefer arranged marriages over love-marriages basically because of the longevity and the endurance of marriages that culminate out of arrangements. With love-marriages only the people who fall in love are happy, while in a arranged marriage all the people involved are happy — the couple, their parents and a host of relatives. It’s a win-win situation unarguably.
K. Chidanand Kumar
Bangalore
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Life in a metro
In “Talking of my city” (April 13), Jerry Pinto has shown the ills of Mumbai as a city of illusions. Yet for many it is a city of dreams. What comes to mind is the life those in slums and those not even having a place in slums. Many plans to make it a clean city, beautiful city, making it as an international financial centre have not worked because while, after any calamity or crisis Mumbaikars are proud that they are able to adjust, they don’t have the will to pursue reforms.
Jacob Sahayam,
Thiruvananthapuram
The article “quite aptly brings out the salient factors governing the expansion of any over populated Indian city. In the case of Mumbai the island city has no room for expansion and it is trying to grow northwards beyond Mahim creek and east wards through New Mumbai. The concrete jungles and neglected creeks together with over-strained slum constructions make the city unimaginably over crowded.
Capt. O.B. Nair
Kochi
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Able administrator
In his article “Three sites and one story” (April 13) the writer has given a fitting tribute to Sher Shah, the medieval emperor who had ruled only for five years but made an illustrious contribution to the growth of the administarative system in India.
Karavadi Raghava Rao
Vijayawada
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Benefits of walking
Though we have been told again and again about the benefits of walking, Dr. Sheela Nambiar has given us simple and easy tips to keep walking (Start walking now, April 13). And undoubtedly, walking alone can be an exercise for the brain too…
P.M. Gopalan
via Email
I am a 45-year-old man employed in a public sector General Insurance Company operating at Kottayam, Kerala. Basically I am not interested in performing any exercise. Because I think that I have no health problems and I have been engaged in casual farm work. On reading the article “Start Walking Now” I am convinced that my approach to exercise is wrong. I am too lazy to walk to my manager’s cabin. Always use lift instead of climbing stairs and depend on auto rickshaws for covering even short distances. Today, I have started walking in the mornings. I feel that your article is informative and an eye-opener to the general public.
>Roy Jacob
via Email
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Manageable crisis?
With reference to “A silent crisis” (April 13), fortunately, the Indian newspaper industry is not facing any crisis resulting from a drop in circulation as is happening in the U.S. The newsprint crisis could be a passing phase or something which could be overcome by passing on the additional expenditure to the readers who would not mind paying a little more. Most Indian news papers carry several informative and interesting items apart from news to keep the readers engaged.
P.U. Krishanan
Ooty
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Brilliant composition
Notwithstanding my deep regard for the erudition of Shashi Tharoor, I found his suggestion to remove Kipling’s famous poem “If” from our curriculum bizarre (April 13). What drove Kipling to write those lines does not in any way dilute the brilliance of the composition.
Dr. Anil K. Joshi
Ranikhet
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