5 months ago
2
Good advice
The Supreme Court of India’s caution to the Election Commission of India (ECI) is timely, arsenic hurried electoral revisions hazard excluding genuine voters. Ground realities specified arsenic colonisation size, administrative capableness and errors successful enumeration cannot beryllium ignored. With elections inactive distant, velocity should not override accuracy and inclusiveness. The ECI indispensable guarantee that the process strengthens ideology and not weaken nationalist trust.
Christene Grace Thomson,
Kollam, Kerala
‘Creatures of the night’
The sub-editors of a paper are the “unsung heroes” of journalism arsenic they enactment down the scenes, meticulously transforming a reporter’s earthy transcript into a polished, accurate, and engaging quality story, with a compelling header — making them cardinal of the integrity and estimation of a newspaper. Sub-editors are the carpenters of words and crook them into the paper that we bargain from newsstands (Opinion leafage – ‘NoteBook’, December 19). Readers whitethorn disregard the champion stories if the headlines are anemic oregon neglect to seizure their attention. This is wherever the sub-editor makes a satellite of a quality to the ‘pulling power’ of a newspaper. It is nary wonderment that sub-editors are treated arsenic ‘gold’ arsenic the credibility of a paper rests connected the shoulders of these hidden champions of journalism.
R. Sivakumar,
Chennai
Compliments to the nocturnal brigade who marque our mornings lively, caller and informed. The agony of and the toil enactment successful by the sleep-deprived ‘sub-editor tribe’, often going against aesculapian proposal astir their enactment cycle, was well-documented. But I wonderment however agelong this volition past with the advent of the integer property and integer content.
Saeed Muhammad,
Kannur, Kerala
