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'The President must act'
E-mail from readers the world over
Date:
Thu, 11 Feb 1999 18:30:56 -0500
Why is the President keeping quiet? Ramana
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Thu, 11 Feb 1999 12:45:17 -0800
It is so sad that it happened again. The solution is to declare an Emergency in Bihar. The President should act now. If he doesn't, then a basic question arises: What the hell is the President's job? Nagaraj
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Thu, 11 Feb 1999 07:27:59 -0500
I am waiting to see how many articles condemning this appear in your site. I am hoping that your journalists give this the same kind of publicity and introspection they gave to the so-called pesecution of Christians, wherein not more than 3 were killed (I am talking of Stains). If they don't, it will just show that Rediff and your journalists are just another run-of-the-mill crowd.
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Fri, 12 Feb 1999 13:03:58 +1100
Very good and informative report. More information on the above, including the raid on Golden Temple complex would be appreciated. Ram Ravi Singh Khalsa
Date:
Thu, 11 Feb 1999 10:11:57 -0500
I think India should consider privatising airport services. Navin
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Thu, 11 Feb 1999 12:20:52 -0800
The initial report on the missionary killings was vivid, courageous, and profession. Your follow-up reporting seemed thorough and fair and gave us distant viewers what seemed a complete account. Congratulations and thank you for your work.
Gregory Becker
Date: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 9:25 PM
Mr Prem Panicker, Sachin Tendulkar's fitness is a concern to most of us. It is amazing that he has scored so many runs with a hairline fracture. There is no way the selectors are going to 'rest' him for the Asian Test Championships. The tournament is too important for the ACC to demonstrate to the ICC that a 'Test Championship' is a feasible event. They have to make this tournament a huge success and the probability of that happening without Sachin is not very encouraging. In this situation I think the onus is then on Sachin to declare himself unfit for the tournament. People like Gavaskar and Kapil should take it upon themselves to convince Sachin that this is the best thing for Indian cricket in the long term. I see no reason why India cannot win without Sachin. Also about your findings on stuff that is being written in the Pakistani media, I have this to say. Agreed the '2 heads on a coin' was taking it a bit too far but I suspect things are not very different when India tours Pakistan. The media in both India and Pakistan are guilty of the same crime. The media has always underestimated the impact it has on the cricket loving people of India and Pakistan and has failed miserably to highlight the positives of an India/Pakistan encounter. To give you an example during a World Cup match between India and Pakistan in Sydney in 1992, Javed Miandad and Co were involved in a tense run-chase. There was constant appealing and I am sure some trash talking going on between Kiran More and Javed. After yet another animated appeal by Kiran More being turned down by the umpire, Javed decided to lighten the situation by imitating More. Instead of putting a positive spin to the event all leading newspapers had the picture of Javed jumping up and down and they tried to make him look like a fool. In fact, a local paper run by the Shiv Sena in Bombay compared him to a monkey. And to tell you the kind of impact it had on my friends; when I pointed out that to me it looked like Javed was trying to lighten the tense situation they looked at me like I was a traitor. Anyway, keep up the good work. Aniruddha Raje
Date: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 4:10 AM
I have been reading this for almost over 10 years now and it makes for an interesting reading. It is amazing what these people write. It still affects me to some extent when I see/read this. Sometimes I have sent an email -- of course no replies. You should try to read what some other newspapers write, including some in England, and you will be surprised at the way they concoct things. Ashok Mittal
Date: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 12:23 AM
An excellent article! By the way, have you read a somewhat verbose, but brilliantly thought-out article on how third umpires can be used extensively, by Simon Lewis on the Cricinfo Web page under Googler's Gazette? He introduces the notion of an "aerial umpire". One may not agree with the implementation of an aerial camera BUT many of his other ideas are general enough to be tried out in the current framework. Ananth Nagarajan
Date:
Mon, 8 Feb 1999 16:19:18 -0800
I think this is a great feature. Very good to combine all new releases and evaluate them. However, I think Rishi Kapoor's AALC was a great movie -- worth watching for sure. Mala
Date:
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:42:20 -0500
It's good.
Date:
Mon, 18 Jan 1999 07:24:34 PST
You have one pompous ass here. He drops the tritest terms in French, the most hackneyed ideas in philosophy and the most cliched stuff in film history. Take that recent nonsense he wrote about Fire. This logician spends an article gibbering about the Indian Constitution not guaranteeing the right to hateful speech (whatever that means) and how some from the secular fringe had uttered half-truths. By concentrating on Shabana Azmi's willingness to hide a relevant fact, he conveniently avoids the other half of the truth. Nowhere in the piece is there any mention of the Shiv Sainiks stripping before Dilip Kumar's house, damaging a cinema house etc. But that isn't the *issue*, see? Srinivasan was only discussing how the protectors of democracy lied, how *they* were irresponsible, not the Sena, wasn't he? Yeah, right. Today he dredged up his opinion about Eisenstein and Kurosawa, as if we needed him to underline the obvious. And just to get across to you the width of his erudition, he tries to get technical; but since his understanding of the nitty-gritty of film-making doesn't include the hardware, he is confined to rambling on about historical perspective and the rest of the nonsense that I find with little trouble elsewhere on the 'Net, written more honestly if not with as much guile. But it's so much more intellectual when you are vague, isn't it? And he irrelevantly (of his own admission) quotes grandly, C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre. Woof! And what was the inflated ass actually saying? That Bollywood isn't making art. How profound! But French must be his third language: note such headlines as J'accuse (Zola, no less) and Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, but I have to admit that he mentioned the name in the piece too). And you are informed of how much Srinivasan knows when he tells you of the time he learnt of the "syntax and semantics of this great new art". And don't forget that what impresses him most about Kurosawa are his "meditations on the nature of reality -- perception becomes reality; and there is no distinction between subjective and objective truth". Impressed, we are. From what I read of him, he must be insufferable at home and may be at work too -- always right, climbing on the pulpit at every opportunity, and talking down to people. A reactionary who is reactionary by choice -- because it is convenient. I wonder if I am wrong. Of course, he had to bring up Kerala and India, in that order. Earlier, we used to hear of biased Bengalis, Sindhis whatever. Unhappily for me, he removes doubt that such bigotry is only a northern phenomenon. Finally, do you know why I wrote this letter? Because I being the excessively sensitive type, actually bit my tongue when I read that cringe-making term, 'auteur', in the article. Shouldn't have expected better, considering the headline was another cliché. But I wasn't sure if an editor on a day off had done it, thinking it was exceedingly clever. But then the headline comes up again in the piece, using the excuse that a film is a director's 'solitary' vision. Now *that* is clever, no? That ghastly term, auteur, was the final straw. It finally put me off even his Machiavellian choice of biased words I used to read him for. But should have expected it -- how could an article on films go without it? But I decided then, that even before I treated my injury, I'd first pen this message to you. I know this is not what you'd call 'good mail', but would also appreciate it if you realised that you are indeed dealing with a monumental fake. Auteur indeed. Krishnan Kutty How Readers responded to T V R Shenoy's recent columns
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