Laws are there, but...
My deep appreciation and support for the article "Of billboards, buntings, posters and graffiti – a Mauritian lesson" by V.S. Ramana.
I personally feel that the citizens who care for Chennai have to bring the awarness among the people... away from politics, religion, film personalities...The Chennai Corporation and Highway Department spend crores of rupees to build overbridges only for the politians to damage them with their publicity. It's hightime that awareness must be brought to the Chennaities. Cleanliness... silent zone...visual pollution... noise pollution... We need tough law-keepers. What has happend to helmet wearing? Only 40% wear them and the rest take it for granted. The same with One Way... Subways...The laws are there but citizens... need to be educated.
John Angel
johnangel1954@yahoo.co.in
More on Moringa
Here are a couple of other uses of the Moringa. It helps to provide that characteristic aroma when its leaves (sprigs) are added in the making of fresh ghee from butter, like some do with betel leaves. Betel leaves are known to clarify ghee and also remove the cholesterol as Cholesterol oxide, which gets precipitated, when they are put in simmering fresh ghee.
As regards its oil, it is used to alleviate gout and acute rheumatism. The wood, I understand, is used to make 'shuttles' for the textile industry.
K.V.S. Krishna
2A, Parkland Apartments
Kamala Bai Street
T. Nagar, Chennai 600 017
The Shavian way
A propos 'An Ode to Plurals' (MM, October 16th), your readers may be interested in the following which appeared in The Economist, London, recently in connection with the declining standards of spelling in English schools.
Bernard Shaw apparently said that 'Fish and Chips' ought to be spelt 'Ghoti and Tchoghs', consistent with the oddity of English spelling.
Fish
Gh as in tough
o as in women
ti as in nation
Chips
Tch as in match
o as in women
ghs as in hiccoughs.
S. Prabhala
9/8, Haudin Road
Bangalore 560042
Re. Net Version
I am yet to hear the proverbial postman's knock but the pages of Madras Musings unfold before me! The marine coloured mast-head and the captivating calligraphy and all the pages in turn make me scream like the small boy taken to the Zoo and shown the giraffe, "No! It can't be true!"
N. Dharmeshwaran
11/5, First Cross, Bharath Nagar,
Madipakkam, Chennai 600 091
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