Celebrating
the New Year
Sir,
There comes another new
year. And along with it the revelry on
the previous night. 31st December will
witness hotels, restaurants, pubs, and
resorts over flowing with merry makers.
They will dance and drink to glory. Some
will over do it and pitch out. Some will
get into brawls. There will be
overspeeding and accidents. All the big
new year resolutions they made on the
previous night will soon be forgotten.
Is this the way we should
start a new year? Or, it should be a day
packed with positive work, full of
vigour, and cheerfulness. Should it not
be a day on which we all contribute some
thing for the poor, and avoid corruption
for atleast 24 hours. If we can't do
this, then I feel, all the new year
celebrations are a waste of money and
time.
A positive work of
upliftment is badly needed among the poor
of our country. Let us resolve to do it
in this new year and start earnestly in
this direction.
Yours
etc...
Colonel R D Singh
Jammu Cantt
Jammu
Megaliths
Sir,
The article titled,
"Megaliths of J&K'' published in
the Sunday edition of this paper (Dec 17)
made an interesting reading. In fact the
megaliths are much important from the
point of view of our history and
evolution of our thought. It is highly
interesting to note that there are scores
of sites in our State which have
megaliths. The need is to establish these
sites for the further study and research.
The important megaliths site of Britain
in stonehenge has been thought to be a
site of prehistoric importance. Even some
exobiologists and writers like E Deniken
Ross have mooted the idea that these
sites have been constructed by the people
who visited earth from outerspace.
Likewise the sites of the
State are of interest though not
necessarily of the above kind but from
the point of view of research also. The
sites at Burzahom, and Kishtwar or Doda
need to be preserved and developed into
places of interest from tourism point of
view. These megaliths have a story to
tell. These megaliths are the works of
our ancestors who lived thousands of
years ago. Thus they are our sacred
memories of our ancestors which like a
civilized posterity we need to preserve.
Yours
etc...
Kuldeep
Sharma
Kishtwar
A campus
of Poonch
Sir,
The news published in this
paper (Dec. 22) about the establishment
of new University Campus at Poonch is
worth praising. Our State has a very
ancient legacy of learning. We should not
forget that great seats of learning
existed in past at the sites of Sharda
and Bijebehara. Then in the modern times
a big milestone was achieved when Sri
Partap College and Price of Wales College
were opened in Srinagar and Jammu. Soon
after independence the University of
J&K was established and Degree
College were established in various
Districts of the State. But still some
areas are so far off from the parent
Universities that it becomes very
difficult for students to come to the
cities and pursue studies there.
The case of Poonch is a good
example in this regard. It is about 230
kilometers from Jammu city of Jammu
University if we are more precise. It
means that a student living at Poonch
proper (not to speak of other farflung
areas falling in Poonch district) who
wants to get higher like Masters or M.
Phil or PhD for that matter will have to
shift to Jammu which means a drain on his
meagre resources. In this regard the
decision to establish a campus of the
University of Poonch is highly desirable
and long overdue. We hope that very less
time will be taken for it to get
operational.
Yours
etc...
Ghulam Nabi
Poonch
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