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Focus on rural India
While The Hindu has been carrying opinion-pieces and news items on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP) from time to time, it was a welcome surprise to see a front page article on it (“Transforming rural India”, May 4).
Also much appreciated is Kalpana Sharma’s column focussing on the Northeast (which in relative contrast to the NREGP, does not get enough attention in the media).
The photographs carried with both these pieces are most delightful.
Venkat Ramanujam
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With reference to “Transforming rural India”, the article has successfully projected the other side of the much-criticised NREGP, the flagship programme of India.
NREGP has the potential to solve the agrarian crisis which our country is currently facing. But our political parties are too busy mapping out other secondary sources for increasing agriculture productivity whereas NREGP is the answer. If CAG’s recent recommendations along with other mechanisms are put in place, then NREGP stands to deliver much more.
Priyanka Chauhan
Faridabad
“Transforming rural India ” was enlightening. It provides an excellent insight into NREGP’s tremendous potential for bringing about a remarkable transformation in rural India, through systematic capital investment. Quite rightly, the author has stated that if implemented with adequate care and determination, this scheme will go a long way in narrowing down considerably the wide gap between the urban rich and rural poor.
K.D. Viswanaathan
Coimbatore
Welcome humour
I enjoyed reading both of Sadaf Siddique’s articles in the Sunday Magazine. She writes so well and humour, often self-directed, is welcome in an article. I am glad her parents’ search for a groom turned out the way it did — on a happy note, considering the horror-stories you so often get to read/hear.
Sheela Nandini
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A better deal?
“Connecting to the Northeast” by Kalpana Sharma (May 4) provides a touching account of the Northeasterners and their feelings of “alienation”. Their feelings deserve a sympathetic hearing and remedial action. They are often in the news sadly for the wrong reasons. The “mainland” media has to be just to them and highlight the developmental as well as environmental issues the Northeasterners face. They deserve a better deal.
N.K.Vijayan
Kizhakkambalam
Choice of cooking oil
The article “Oily concerns” (May 4) was highly informative and analysed one of the more important aspects of our healthcare. At a time when the incidence of cardiovascular diseases is showing an alarming increase in the young and old alike, this article has provided valuable insight into the choice of cooking oil that would ensure optimal health besides providing our body with a vital source of energy.
J. Anantha Padmanabhan
Srirangam
Necessary dialogues
“A Fruitful Dialogue” by Ziya Us Salam (Literary Review, May 4) is a beautiful write-up on the increasing importance of translations in the field of Indian literature.
Translations of regional literature into other Indian languages and finally into the global language serve a two-fold purpose. Firstly, translated regional writings open windows of understanding among people of different regions through their wide reach. They serve to inculcate a feeling of oneness despite regional disparities.
Secondly, when translated into English, these works of regional writers project an authentic image of India internationally which otherwise seems to be little exaggerated in English writings.
Dr. S.A. Khader
Kurnool.
Correction: The first sentence of the column Endpaper (Literary Review, May 1) was garbled due to a technical glitch. The correct sentence is as follows: “If I were to tell you that ‘He Do The Policeman in Different Voices’ is a landmark in modern poetry would you believe me? Or that ‘Tom All-Alone’s Factory That Got Into Chancery and Never Got Out’ is a great Victorian novel, while ‘The High Bouncing Lover’ (or ‘Trimalchio in West Egg’, take your pick) is considered the greatest American novel ever written?”. The error is regretted.
Readers are welcome to respond to the articles published in the Magazine. Please send in your responses to: sundaypost@thehindu.co.in
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