Captain’s knock

• It’s sad but true that Dravid, Tendulkar, Ganguly and Laxman are no more the fab four (‘Fab four’s follies’, IE, March 29). As Test batsmen, Ganguly’s and Laxman’s best days are behind them and except for an occasional sparkle nothing more should be expected from them. Regarding Tendulkar, he may score runs but he is not the dominating batsman he used to be. His claims to be the world’s best batter are just that — claims. They don’t stand up to the light of day. On current form, Inzy, Ponting, Kallis, Martin, Dravid and Lara are better than him. As far as Dravid is concerned, he’ll score runs but will never trouble bowlers who are out for the kill. Why don’t we say it and say it out loud — the best Indian batsmen on all counts is Sehwag consistent dominating and reliable. The Fab Four have been replaced effectively by The Greatest!

— Haridas Rao Lucknow

• The last day’s cricket match between India and Pakistan is a testimony that India is a secular state. The whole team played so badly as if they were determined to accept defeat to equalise the series.

— O.P. Sharma Delhi

Trend of the Times

• The interview with the Times editor, Robert Thomson (IE, March 25) is an important and interesting one as it throws light on the media in general by an international authority in the field. It seems the problems focused by Thomson in Britain are the same everywhere, specially in India’s English language media. One felt Thomson was commenting on our English language media when he talked of spin and biases in reporting. The most important observation of Thomson’s — and this again applies to our English language media — is that their objective must be to be objective.

— G.S. Kulkarni Delhi

Water is life

• There is no use in observing one day in a year as World Water Day as the problem is a serious one and continuous efforts are necessary to conserve water and ensure its efficient use on a day-to-day basis. Further, children should be wholly involved in the campaign as they are the ones who have to face the consequences of wasting this precious natural resource.

— V. Padmanabhan Bangalore

Sex, please

• Apropos of the article, ‘Immorality, where is thy sting?’ (IE, March 26), sex and exploitation is not new. We may be a poor country, our technology may be second-rate. We may not know how to speak either English or Hindi. But sex is certainly integral to our national identity!

— Amit Singh Bilaspur