Sir — We heard about the missing AirAsia plane, and also about the bomb blast in Bangalore. Now, the AirAsia jet, carrying 162 people, is believed to have gone down the ocean. Has life become this uncertainIJ We begin our journey — be it an evening walk or a day’s work or a week’s vacation — with hope and joy. We wish each other a happy outing. While for some, it is indeed a joyful one, for others it ends up in disaster.
Recently, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that we “worship lord Ganesh”, Indian intellectuals sneered openly. The print media even now enjoys reminding the readers that we are a bunch of ‘scientific illiterates’. Maybe most of us are educated ‘fools’, but we, to whichever community we belong to, repose our faith in the Almighty, by remembering him silently, when we step out of our homes. We want to return safely.