Letters To The Editor

True cricket grit 8226; What a thrilling win it was 8216;ODI history: Australia 434/4, S Africa 438/98217;, IE, March 13! We were alre...

True cricket grit

8226; What a thrilling win it was 8216;ODI history: Australia 434/4, S Africa 438/98217;, IE, March 13! We were already overwhelmed by the Australian total of 434. Then South Africa went on to chase it and notch a magnificent win, with just one ball to spare. It was a Sunday that every cricket lover will long remember. Until the very end, South Africa displayed grit and determination. Any other team 8212; the Windies, Pakistan and especially India 8212; would have buckled under the pressure. Incidentally, South Africa8217;s performance shouldn8217;t mean that the Australian great performance should go without appreciation.

8212; S. Krishna Kumar, Mumbai

8226; Australia broke a record by notching 434, the highest score in an ODI. And then South Africa went on to make 438 and win the match! Perhaps this record will not be broken for decades to come. The best part of the match was the final combined total of 872 runs in an ODI! Every cricket player must study this match carefully and learn lessons on how to keep the winning spirit alive 8212; until the last ball.

8212; Mahesh Kapasi, New Delhi

Judicial reform

8226; The recent suggestions for discarding the centuries-old mode of dress and address in our courts of law are certainly logical. But the real 8216;reforms8217; need to be introduced without loss of any further time in the spheres of speed, simplicity, costs, and transparency of the system. Courts, too, need to work as efficient 8216;service organisations8217; with a stress on time management. Short work days and long vacations need to replaced with more user-friendly work schedules, just as our nationalised banks have begun doing.

8212; Kishore Karnad, Baroda

8226; Babasaheb Ambedkar8217;s historic pen with which he wrote the Constitution is still around. Before this thick-nibbed, orange pen makes its way to a museum overseas, it would be appropriate to carry out, in right earnest, the much needed and long overdue amendments to the Constitution, and usher in much needed electoral, judicial and administrative reform. That would be a true tribute to the founding fathers of our otherwise great nation.

8212; Aires Rodrigues, Mumbai

Terror target

8226; We are the only country in the world in which the majority community must live in a state of perpetual fear. Terrorists can reach any place, anywhere, at any time and strike at their will. For the sake of secularism we must remain calm, we must repeal POTA, we must not touch the madrasas which groom jehadis, we must not touch religious places, even when attacks are planned in these places, and we must not curse Pakistan which is the epicentre of all the terrorist organisations!

8212; S.C. Bhargava, New Delhi

How about this?

8226; The editorial,8216;Educating Rahul8217; IE, March 11, advances the delightful argument that Rahul Gandhi should be made education minister because 8220;he happens to be much closer in age and mindset to India8217;s student community than the present incumbent.8221; Without doubt almost anybody would be preferable to Arjun Singh; but surely Rahulji, at 36, is a little past his youth? On the other hand, his nephew Rehan Priyanka8217;s son, aged 6, is much closer in age and mindset to the average Indian student!

8212; R.P. Subramanian, Delhi