Short Success

Letters

"The Sangh Parivar's criticism of the BJP is a smokescreen-to disarm the party's opponents by pre-empting any criticism by them." Praveen S. Rathore on e-mail

SMS is socialising rediscovered-cheap, quick and easy ("Love, Sex and SMS", October 14). It is a great alternative to personally visiting friends and acquaintances in these fast and busy times when one doesn't have enough time even for the family.

Abhinav Vats, Jaipur

The story was a real revelation. Don't know if it was ignorance but I always thought more love and lust happened in the Internet chat rooms. I wonder if the figures weren't overestimated.

Parthip Thyagarajan, on e-mail

Letters are passe, SMS is in. My marriage is the culmination of hundreds of such messages exchanged. But it is regrettable that we cannot preserve and cherish SMS messages for an eternity like conventional love letters.

K. Chidanand Kumar, Bangalore

It seems in the present jet age there isn't time even for love and sex. Otherwise why would anyone choose SMS for them?

Mahesh Kumar, on e-mail

Your magazine needs to focus on matters more important than the sleaze and sex talks of a few people who don't matter to anybody. An article would have been proper but making it the cover story is being too indifferent to the issues before the country.

Satyendra Pandey, on e-mail

Seriously, how many of us are actually affected by the fact that over 2.5 crore SMS are sent out by four lakh cell-phone owners daily? Or are we bothered so much by this electronic flirting that it deems the status of a cover story? The story just stopped short of saying that SMS was the greatest thing to happen to Indian society since Kamasutra.

Nupur Amarnath, Noida

Test Case

Your story on Subhas Mukherjee ("Honour Restored", October 14) was poignant. One can only imagine the revolutionary physiologist's frustration at having his claim of having created India's first test-tube baby ridiculed by an ill-equipped inquiry committee. But one has to admire Dr T.C. Kumar's humility in coming forth and admitting that it was Mukherjee and not he who should be given credit for the pioneering work. Thanks to him, justice has been done, even if it was so late in the day.
Radhika Oltikar, on e-mail

Out of Control

Thanks for bringing to light the telling facts on Jammu and Kashmir financially upstaging other Indian states, especially considering its population ("Great Sop Story", October 14). The statistics are staggering. With all this, it is surprising Jammu and Kashmir wants more autonomy too. More autonomy to the state alone would spell disaster for India's unity. Is autonomy the price to be paid for the satisfaction of continuing to tenaciously refute the two-nation theory?

C.B. Dyuthikar, on e-mail

Star Strikes

What has happened to the law and order situation in India ("Superbrat", October 14)? A person kills a man and gets bail after a couple of hours for a mere Rs 950. Does being famous give a person the licence to kill? I wonder when Salman Khan will understand that real life is different from reel life.

Saurabh Sharma, on e-mail

A Brush with the law has become a habit with Salman Khan because he is by now familiar with the way it treats the rich and the famous. The film industry, which expressed its solidarity when Sanjay Dutt was arrested, did not find it fit to castigate Salman because, after all, the life involved was that of a pavement dweller. Referring to the BMW case during a debate on a popular TV channel, a famous criminal lawyer is on record saying that the killed men had no business standing in the middle of the road. Maybe now it will be said that poor people have no business to sleep on pavements.

D.V. Madhava Rao, on e-mail

Should Salman be punished? There's sadism in our desperate need for justice, to "teach the man a lesson". Hit-and-run accidents are common and are pushed under the carpet quite smoothly. We have already passed judgement on Salman on the basis of hearsay-he could not handle the success, money came to him too suddenly, he needs counselling, is brattish, etc. Surely his intention was not to kill. I am not trying to deny what he has done. Justice should be done for the sake of justice and not for the sake of selling extra copies, one-upmanship or to feed gossip columns.

Varshaa Mehrishi, on e-mail

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