| Tragic demise | | Your editorial, ‘A life wasted’ (June 15) poignantly depicted how today’s youth especially, connected to the glamorous world of showbiz, are unable to cope up with failure and defeat and face life’s little challenges. | | Drone attacks | | In many sections of the print and electronic media debate goes on about US drone attacks in the tribal areas of Pakistan. | | Biased reporting | | I was disappointed to see that the Champions’ Cricket game played on June 13, between England and Sri Lanka has been reported in KT as though England trounced Sri Lanka by 7 wickets instead of the other way around. | | Diversity needed | | This is in response to the letter ‘Diversity needed’ (KT, June 13). | | Taksim Square | | If the Tahrir Square, protests were lauded for the dismantling of a 30-year hold on power by the now-ailing Hosni Mubarak, those at Istanbul’s Taksim appear to be the exact opposite — a Turkish nation, having enjoyed democracy and unprecedented economic growth, now finding the powers of Recip Erdogan to be “overbearing!” | | Measuring time | | Is the past really the past? It may be present or future, in the various parts of this universe, depending on where we are located. Sunrays will take 15 minutes to reach the earth that means, we are all seeing the sun 15 minutes past its existing status. | | Unhelpful airport staff | | My flight from the UAE to a metropolitan city in India landed at its International Airport on
Saturday, April 27, 2013, at around 2:30am. | | Big brother | | America’s intrusion into the lives of ordinary citizens (and corporations) by surveillance through the use of PRISM technology, is disturbing, considering the country’s repeated mantra of it being an “arsenal of democracy”. | | Diversity needed | | Thanks to Mr.Divakaran for taking the initiative to express ‘opinion’ about the same old opinions that are voiced in KT. Each day the same bunch that write about some topics that really do not concern them. | | Shopping habits | | This is in reference to Asha Iyer Kumar’s article, Sizing up shopping habits, published on June 8. Married men all over the world will vouch for the fact that their better halves find great pleasure in impulsive buying and compulsive shopping. | |
