Annamalai University’s Distance Education
The closure of Annamalai University’s Chennai study centre at Egmore has caused significant distress among distance education students. This centrally located centre was convenient for working professionals, caregivers of aged parents, and mothers with young children in Chennai. Forcing students to travel to other cities for exams incurs high costs and logistical challenges, which contradicts the welfare objectives of distance education, aimed at supporting economically disadvantaged and working students. The university should reconsider and reopen the Egmore centre for exams and contact classes, as promised during admissions for the 2024 batch and earlier.
T S Karthik, Chennai

Mining in Chattisgarh Forest
The Adani Group had been permitted in the first instance to mine in the Hasdeo forest villages in 2012, when the Parliament had already enacted the Scheduled Tribes And Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition Of Forest Rights) Act as early as in 2006 (“Forest Rights Act or FRA) and, as a result, community rights were deemed to have accrued to the local tribal villages.  If the Chhattisgarh government and MoTA had fully stood in support of the local tribal communities and placed the legal position before the Hon’ble High Court. ...had the Chhattisgarh government and MoTA highlighted these points properly, the outcome of the case would have been different. 

Allotment of mining rights to the Adani Group in Hasdeo forest (Sarguja, Surajpur and Korba districts) prima-facie violates the local tribals’ Constitutional rights.
C R Bijoy

Peace not War 
In peace, a son cremates his father; in war, a father cremates his son. Peace is like oxygen—when diminished, humanity suffocates. Nations must cease conflict, embrace dialogue, and foster harmony for a thriving world.
T S Karthik, Chennai

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Vol 58, No. 20, Nov 9 - 15, 2025