Is Pawar also playing games?
Sir,
Australians pick a target and go for the jugular like a pack of wolves. Get Harbhajan Singh because he had Ponting's bunny.
Kill two birds with one stone!
The plan kicked in. What better than the only non-white member of the Aussie team makes the allegation for his white masters?
Mike Procter, another white man from South Africa, where apartheid regime once ruled, convicts Harbhajan on the white man’s word.
Sharad Pawar also wants absolute power and all the money. In a white dominated ICC, how can he get it?
Appease them! With hefty remuneration, absolute power to wreck havoc on the gagged, over-worked Indian team (read Chappell).
Forget the plight of Indian cricket; it's more important to retire as the head of ICC, right?
Cut to the day of the East India Company. The pliable, spineless, self-serving Indian politician was subjugated by offering peanuts, in return for the country. Does that seem like a strikingly similar strategy employed by the white man?
J Srinivasan
Bangalore
Homage to Hillary
Sir,
“It is not the mountains that we conquer, but ourselves.” These words by Sir Edmund Hillary, his conquest of Everest in 1953 with Tenzing Norgay and his simplistic life will be remembered by the generations to come. He dedicated his life for environmental causes. He did much to help the impoverished people in Nepal and they loved him for it. His name has become a byword for courage and endurance for future generations.
NEIL PAREKH
Bangalore
Auto menace
Sir,
The public is inconvenienced when essential services like autos call for a strike. One can understand a demand to increase the fare, in view of increased fuel and living costs. But demanding a minium fare of Rs. 20 and raising it from Rs. 12 is unreasonable and the same is the comment on fare per kilometre they are demanding. Will the drivers’ union, who called for a strike find a solution to this ?
G Krishna Murthy
Bangalore
People’s car?
Sir,
In the newsgroup discussions on the Nano car, environmentalists and NGOs were voicing their concerns about impact of this car on environment, road traffic etc. In no programme the anchor thought it fit to pose a question to these people if they own a car? When these people can travel by car, do they have the moral right to protest against realisation of a dream of lakhs of middle class people to own their own car?
R Y Joshi
Hubli
Hats off, Tata
Sir,
Cheers to Ratan Tata for delivering his promise of providing a car for the common man in the face of harsh opposition and high prices. Anyone can build an extravagant car, but to manufacture a low cost car – and that too the world’s cheapest – is indeed a feat.
On the flip side, the common man would prefer public transport any day to save the maintenance cost, congestion and traffic chaos.
K CHIDANAND KUMAR
Bangalore
