Rumour Has It
Doubtlessly a sinister conspiracy was hatched by the interested parties (“Rumour is Villain in Bangalore”, August 27) to create an unprecedented state of terror among North- east people across the country by floating baseless rumours and morphed images through SMS and social media. Our cyber intelligence agencies should have taken timely action to stop the circulation of inflammatory texts. P. K. SRIVASTAVA, Delhi
Baba’s New Role
Baba Ramdev has become a force to reckon with (“Ramdev Becomes Magnet”, August 27) due to his crores of followers in India and abroad. BJP wants to leverage his antiCongress stance to its political advantage. Congress will be further isolated and its prospects in next elections will be bleak as a result. P. S. SINGH, Ludhiana Both Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev had started with corruption and black money as a social movement, without getting into dirty politics. The nation had galvanised with great hope. Today, the major issues of corruption and Lokpal bill seem to be in words only; the main focus appears to be the 2014 General Elections. ANJUM. M. SAMEL, Mumbai Landing of spacecraft Curiosity on Mars (“Morning After in Mars”, August 27) is a commendable achievement of NASA scientists. It will open a new chapter on the possibility of life beyond Earth. Indian scientists working at NASA should also be given credit for the feat. India is also in the process sending Chandrayaan- 2 to the moon, which will be a big achievement for our scientists. US and India should join hands on future space missions. J. S. NARAYAN, Chennai
Great Heights