GREEN DIWALI

The Supreme Court ban on the sale of crackers in Delhi-ncr, and the Punjab and Haryana high court’s restrictions on bursting of crackers to 3 hours in Punjab, Haryana and UT, are praiseworthy rulings in the best interest of health of citizens. The courts deserve credit for taking up suo motu cognizance of the deteriorating level of pollution after Diwali. If we are sincerely concerned about health and efficiency of our younger generation, we should abide by the guidelines of the honourable courts with all seriousness and observe a green Diwali.

Dr Soshil Rattan, Amritsar

area in order to put the health of people on priority.

Nirmal Chaggar, Mohali

Board and save the environment. Let the festival of lights this time be our first crackerless and green Diwali.

Mohan Singh, Amritsar locks them up for life. The high court finds them not guilty on the same evidence and sets them free. What a travesty of justice! Do judges read different books in trial and high courts? Who will account for the years of tribulations of Talwars and four years of imprisonment. Someone must be held accountable for this horrible miscarriage of justice.

Dr Tejit Singh, Chandigarh glasses” (HT, Oct 11). The obvious reference is to Italy, which is ‘maika’ of Sonia Gandhi and ‘nanka’ of Rahul Gandhi. This makes the statement of Shah a crude rustic joke. In patriarchal societies, it’s common for paternal families to denigrate and belittle maternal families of young lads on their face. The attempt made to prove that the mother’s family is inferior to that of father.

Beant Singh Bedi, Mohali