Opinion IPL ripple
Your editorial Enough is enough rightly lambasts the IPLs decision to not play matches in Hyderabad.
• Your editorial Enough is enough rightly lambasts the IPLs decision to not play matches in Hyderabad. If the atmosphere in Hyderabad is heated due to the Telangana issue,how come Maharashtra is a safe venue,given the political turmoil,and the worst of regional chauvinism? If Sharad Pawar thinks that going to Matoshree and taking the blessings of Bal Thackeray would pave the way for the Australian team playing in Mumbai,why did he not think of going to Chandrasekhar Rao and appealing for the safe conduct of matches in Hyderabad? It is a tragedy that the Centre is silent as the BCCI and IPL bosses decide and declare states safe or unsafe. This trend,of shifting venues on the basis of their own intelligence inputs,should be discouraged because it portends great authority to a mere sports organisation.
Ashok Goswami
Punch needed
• Terrorism (both of the jehadi and Naxal varieties) has our country in its vice-like grip. It has to be fought with utmost determination. Loose ends relating to the collection and dissemination of intelligence,improvement of investigative skills,modernisation and expansion of forces,training,long-neglected police reforms and,above all,a shift from vote-bank politics need to be tied up before we can hope to overcome the terrorist challenge. The Union home minister has been on the right track,but he has in the process given the impression that he is more interested in building his image than in nuts-and-bolts tightening. Had there been an intelligent and hardworking beat constable on duty on Punes German Bakery beat,he would have noticed the movements of suspicious characters in his area and alerted all concerned. Amid all the big talk,the concept of the beat constable has been conspicuous by its absence. Other preparations also lack the much needed punch.
R.J. Khurana
Standard schooling
• Kapil Sibal deserves kudos for bringing some sanity into our wayward education system. Having a common syllabus in mathematics and science at the secondary school level and,thereafter,an all-India common entrance test for professional courses is the need of our times. It would have been even better to have a common syllabus in professional education. The HRD ministry can possibly persuade the Central and state levels to have a uniform syllabus in medicine,engineering,management streams at the undergraduate level to begin with. Some leeway can be given to each university to have two or three elective subjects in the final year.
Also,a common term-end examination and uniform grading system are needed. There must be common yardsticks for internal assessment which can be uniformly pegged to 25 per cent. The syllabus should be drawn not only by academics but also professionals in the field and it should be reviewed by experts every three-four years.
Raghubir Singh
Pune
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