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'India needs to be ruled by someone like Lt General Jacob'
E-mail from readers the world over
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 00:48:59 +0530 I agree wholeheartedly with this report because my wife (a teacher) and I (a journalist) used to interact a great deal with our children when they were young about the television programmes they saw. We feel it is most important and television can be no baby-sitter or substitute for parents because children like to believe what they see on television is true. One of the programmes my children used to see when they were young was Superman on Sunday mornings, swinging from one skyscraper to the other. On Sunday evening, when we went to the park, all we could hear was the Superman theme song as children played on the swings and climbed over the other hurdles in the park and yelled out the theme song as they made believe they were Supermen. Imagine our horror one day when my son asked why he could not swing from our balcony to the adjacent building on a bedsheet! Yes, parents need to interact closely with their kids on what they see lest they take it to be real. Today, my son is grown up and an adult and laughs at his childhood dreams. Allwyn Fernandes
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 22:12:10 -0600 I live in the state of Minnesota, in the USA. When I go to church (I am a Christian) I hear that we are not safe in India. I hear that Christians are persecuted there and that the Government in India is behind much of the persecution. Can you tell me anything that would make me believe otherwise? Stan Judge Mr Judge: There is no evidence whatsoever that the Government of India is behind the attacks on Christians. Please do read our extensive coverage of the issue.
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 07:25:33 PST This news is so shocking that I sat dumbfounded for a while. We all have read about the Taliban's atrocities and religious compulsions on women in Kabul we never imagined such a phenomenon can sprout in our home land too! Are we leaving in a proclaimed secular and democratic India? Are we not allowed to practice the freedom which our Constitution bestow upon us? This news, if go unnoticed in the administration, can surely destroy that belief! How can the militants, no matter what religious faith they belong to, decide what we can do and we cannot? Why can't the government retaliate to such militancy and show the courage to threaten our Constitution and probably in future our whole existence as a secular and democratic country! Otherwise, pretty soon we will hear that women are banned to go to work in Kashmir because it leads to degeneration of OUR (!!!) culture! R Ghosh
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 23:41:01 -0800 Nambi should be compensated. Anybody else would have left the wretched working environment of ISRO and left for greener pastures abroad. This is what the country doles out to patriotic scientists?
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 08:35:26 -0800 India needs to be ruled in New Delhi by someone like Lt General Jacob, which can only lead India to her best, in the world.
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 10:18:10 -0800 (PST) Nice to hear some progress being done in the government. The BJP would do well to appoint another ex-serviceman in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Kamal
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 12:48:54 -0800 Well, that was indeed a sad piece of journalism. How deeply etched in our minds is the image of the good, authoritarian chief executive! However that age, the age of the select few, incorruptible administrators ruling wisely -- for a monarch or for a colonial administration -- is now history. The world, including India, is now struggling to construct a different system, where the bureaucracy has enough internal structure to perform its intended function, and where a political system, elected by the people, can create policy and superimpose it on the bureaucracy. It is good that an ex-serviceman has proved a good administrator of Goa under President's rule. However, a good journalist ought to be able to present that matter in the correct perspective of the deep democratic upheavals within the country/world.
Professor Alap Subramanian
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 18:53:11 +0300 Maybe we should simply let the governors rule every Indian state for a year to set the administration in shape, then go back to elections!!
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 03:53:52 -0800 (PST) What arrogance! Does this Lele think that everyone else is worth dirt? Look at how this official talks! "Listen, that is our prerogative, you needn't worry about all these things"! What does this guy *think*? That he is answerable to no one? That he can do as he pleases? And such guys make decisions about picking the Indian team! Look what he says next : "You don't worry about all that. You just write that the team will be declared on the third of March. That's it. Don't bother about how we will do it.", he says. My congratulations to the journalist for reporting this in its entire form. But, of course, we all know what Mr Lele will say in his next interview: "I never said all this. I was quoted out of context. Blah! Blah! Blah!" ..... These guys sicken me! Das
Date: Saturday, February 27, 1999 3:12 AM Lele is the biggest politician, a puppet of Dalmia. I don't understand one thing: Why don't we have selectors like Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Vengsarkar, Shastri, Srikkanth and so on? They don't want to be or nobody lets them get elected. In Australia, Border is one of the selectors; in England, Gatting and Gooch are selectors. I guess it is only in India that selectors are elected/nominated based on their political expertise rather than cricketing skills. I think if the selectors are elected based on their cricketing skills, the Indian players and probables will not have so much frustration, complaints about too much cricket, not playing enough Tests per year, politics of region, favouritism and so on. It is much too frustrating for cricket fans like me to see all that drama of selection and reasons given for a particular selection. I think the Indian cricketing system is plagued like the hockey system with too much politics, favouritism and so on. Sanjay Patel
Date: Thursday, February 25, 1999 8:46 AM Harsha writes something idiotic when he talks about Wasim Akram, how great a bowler he is and then goes on to say that Wasim was using cream and not sweat off his face to shine the ball. All I want to know is what proof he has that it was cream and not sweat. If he has any proof then he should say things like that or else just shut up. It seems that defeat in Calcutta was hard to digest for Harsha and maybe for you too. What Harsha is doing is offering the world a glass of milk by praising Wasim and then adding a drop of urine in it by accusing Wasim. I thought Rediff does unprejudiced journalism, but now I have changed my mind. Asim
Date: Saturday, February 27, 1999 5:24 PM Your article proves once again the need for a dynamic captain, game plan, alternative strategies, bowling changes, field placing etc etc, rather than the captain biting his nails or thinking of excuses for not winning! If Indian selectors want to do the best for Indian cricket, they will have to consider the following, if , at all, they >want India to win the World Cup: 1. Choose Tendulkar as captain. Do not offer him vice-captaincy. He can do the captain's job much better than Azhar. 2. This does not exclude Azhar from playing for India in the World Cup. He can still play on his merits and form. 3. Include Ramesh in the one day team. This will give an opportunity to choose between Ramesh and Ganguly based on their form. 4. Get the right coach for the team. Forget about Bob Simpson. He is not going to deliver the goods for India. Get a coach who commits himself to the performance of Indian cricket. Get a guy like Srikkanth. Will these happen? Shekar
Date: Saturday, February 27, 1999 12:12 PM Don't you think that Azhar's performance in this match itself is bad enough to sack him? After all that Azhar's given to the game before, Azhar in this match made the cardinal sin, of "not making any attempt to win", which should be absolutely unpardonable. If it is not for trying to win, what else are we playing for? The match fees? For taking the crowd for a ride?
Udayan A Joshi
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