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Change of One Day Cricket Format
Dear sir,
I have been contemplating for quite some time how to make cricket more entertaining to the followers of one day cricket, especially after the surprise elimination of both India and Pakistan from the 2007 world cup even before the quarter final stage. I am quite confident that with some variation the game of 50 overs cricket can bring wonders and be more entertaining to the viewers and followers of the game. When both the sides are batting, like immediately after one another, there is bound to be more enthusiasm among the viewers and listeners of the game. And also it might bring a change in the strategy deployed by the captains and coaches. 50 overs game, as such, has become more predictable and a variation or change of any kind should be welcome. I have decided to send it to a number of newspapers, only in India, because I want some Indian to take the first step in initiating a change.
Of course, any modification or change to the format is more welcome.
Sincerely
Raghu Hari
What about the other four victims?
Sir,
Indian TV channels celebrated for 48 hours the missing of helicopter which had carried the Andhra CM Shri YSR and subsequent recovery of the crashed chopper along with the dead bodies of the occupants. As newspapers and TV channels have rightly pointed out, the search for the helicopter which went missing in the morning of 2nd September was the most massive hunt which India has ever initiated.
The whole episode including the TV coverage and reactions of the politicians taught the public a great lesson that the life of a politician is more precious that the life of a common man or a government servant. No politician was seen lamenting or even condoling the loss of lives of the two pilots and the two officers who were killed along with the CM. The public still do not know anything about the home towns of these four ill-fated victims, and about their last rites. And, let there be no doubt that if the CM had not been in the chopper, there would not have been such a massive hunt for it; and like a few Indians who got lost for ever in the oceans in the recent past, the bodies of those four occupants of the chopper would also have got lost at the top of the hill where it had crashed.
Let the politicians think that only politicians' lives are precious in a democracy; at the same time, they should have the decency to show - or better to say, to pretend - that they consider the lives of others who die along with the politicians, especially when those officials die while doing service to the politician, as equally precious.
Regards
P K Einstein
Sree Chitra Institute
Dear editor,
The capital city is losing yet another prestigious educational institution, Sree Chitra Institute of Medical Sciences.
Last month, medias reported that the director of the institute had asked for 200 acres of land in Thiruvananthapuram for the purpose of further expansion of it. But now the government is allocating land for the institute in Wayanad, why this double stand only in the case of Thiruvananthapuram earlier it was in the case of IIT. Hope you will take necessary steps in this issue, as you have done before in the issue regarding national accreditation for Peeroorkada Mental Hospital.
Hopefully
Robin K Rajan
New bus station project
Dear editor,
Firstly I would like to thank Kerala Kaumudi for their involvement in the city’s developmental issues. Years before there was news about a new bus station in Enjackal in Thiruvananthapuram for inter city buses, but with the proposal to develop the Thampanoor sub station, the proposal seems to be sidelined.
If this project gets materialized the traffic congestion in the capital city could be minimized at least to some extent. Nowadays all the long distance running buses are entering the city which is a major cause of traffic congestion.
Goondas to be treated as terrorists
Dear editor,
I was reading the news about Paul Muthoot's murder.
This murder exposes the new threat Kerala is facing, or I should say India is facing. But why is this murder having so much publicity? Is it because his family name is Muthoot. If he were Paul Varghese would it make headlines? But the truth is there are lots of common people
facing the same fate as that of Paul Muthoot but their story might be covered in obituary section.
What was Paul doing with friends who happened to be goondas? What was the reason he had them around? There is a saying "Val enduthavan Valaal." Isn't that what happened?
Now to our dear political leaders, what are you doing to curb goondaism? True you enacted a goonda act where you could keep a goonda in jail for 6 months. With our jails offering VIP treatment and cell phones they are happy to stay at tax payer's money and continue their
business.
Why are goondas not treated as terrorist? Who is a terrorist? One definition is "One who governs by terrorism or intimidation". Don’t our goondas fit this description?
Assume if our leaders where to draft a law that would define goondaism as terrorism and aiding and abetting goodas is same as aiding and abetting terrorist. How many of us will make friends or get in touch with them?
Regards
Sugath
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