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Monday, May 12 1997

Letters to the Editor

Easy answers

The recent spate of copying incidents, involving institutions of the highest stature -- at Roorkee, Indian Institutes of Technology, the leak of intermediate question papers in Andhra Pradesh, indicates that other States also ought to think in terms of Anti copy Act intiated by the Kalyan Singh government.

Imperialism in pink

Two days before sweeping the polls, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said at an election rally that Great Britain owed it to its rule over India to settle Kashmir. He was, no doubt, making a last-minute effort for wooing the support of the Pakistanis settled in England. But while doing so, he has enunciated that an imperialist power does not change its mind-set.

Stop judging films in camera

National film awards never ceases to bewilder. Juries for decades refused to take note of Ritwik Ghatak's masterpieces. Finally, when they did he wasn't around to receive the award in 1976. Again, the jury finally detected some cinematographic excellence in Subrata Mitra's camera work for New Delhi Times in 1989.

Morality by proxy

Sense and security

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