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LETTERS
Potent Supplement
Sri Lanka's win shows how planning and preparation
remain the bedrock of success in sports ("The Will to Win",
September 17). The free hand that administrators in the island nation
have given coach Dave Whatmore has already led Sri Lanka to a World Cup
win. We remain oblivious of the fact that tactics must supplement talent
for success to be achieved in today's competitive sporting world.
— Ranjan Sahay, Cooch Behar
With the growing frustra-tion of cricket lovers
in India, it may be pertinent to apprise the national selectors and Sourav
Ganguly of an old Arab proverb: "An army of sheep led by a lion will
defeat an army of lions led by a sheep." An apt obituary of Indian
cricket.
—Rathnakar Rai, on e-mail
Ugly Encore
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An Uncertain Future
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 The
controversy surrounding the status of astrology as a science is
unwarranted ("Science or Sham?", September 17). After
all, it is not as though the ugc promotes only science subjects.
Besides, all art subjects use some degree of interpretation. Does
that render them irrelevant?
—Sharada Kumaraswamy, on
e-mail
While science is an attempt to explain
the unknown in terms of the known, astrology is a subject that gives
indications of what the future holds. Thus in a certain way astrology
can also be studied as a science. It follows the methodology of
science and clearly states that whatever predictions may be made
on the basis of its data are mere indications.
— K. Parameswaran, Thiruvananthapuram
The damnation of vedic astrology stems from the
fact that while anything borrowed from the US becomes globalisation,
our indigenous heritage is perceived as saffronisation.
—Abhinandan Singh Rathor,
on e-mail
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There are striking similarities in the bureaucratic
and political response to starvation deaths in two events almost 70 years
apart ("Lethal Diet", September 10). In Discovery of India,
Jawaharlal Nehru had written about the 1943 Bengal famine: "Up to
the last moment, the famine was denied. When it became impossible to deny,
each group in authority blamed some other group." His words ring
true in the Orissa famine as well. The Government blames the starvation
deaths on poisonous mushrooms and contaminated mango kernels. And all
the while the Central Government washes its hands off, saying that the
Public Distribution System is a state subject.
— Dr B.N.S. Walia, on e-mail
Not Worth Emulating
Your cover story on the Arjuna Awards overlooks
two important facts ("Prize and Prejudice", September 3). First,
Dronacharya is a model of what a teacher should not be. He sacrificed
his best student to ensure political patronage. Secondly, Arjuna never
won any contest without subterfuge. By naming our national awards after
these two, these base principles have been propagated.
— Dr A.K. Basu, Ranchi
Negative Publicity
Your story on the Uttaran-chal chief minister
appears to be a deliberate attempt to defame Nityanand Swami ("The
Swamy of Inertia", September 3). The statement that he has never
won a popular election and has instead preferred the safe route through
the Dehradun-Hardwar graduate constituency seat is mischievous. Swami
was elected an MLA as a Jan Sangh candidate from the Dehradun constituency
in 1969. Moreover, none of his aides is either an architect or an RSS
full-timer. And Swami, as chief minister, has more achievements than putting
up traffic lights in Dehradun. The worst insinuation is that Swami was
nowhere around when the agitation for Uttaranchal was at its peak. As
chairman of the Vidhan Parishad, he represented the hill state's case
in Lucknow as well as in Delhi.
— Anil Kumar Sharma,
Executive Director and Under Secretary to the Chief Minister, Dehradun
We regret the errors.
—Editor
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