Readers’ Response

You got it wrong

In your issue dated February, 2004, I couldn’t resist reading the ‘Wildside’ article on Ranthambore . Please screen articles for their quality, tone, visual support and facts before getting impatient to print. A paragraph is devoted to food. Another to the stay in a swimming-pool endowed resort. But only a line to deer and antelopes! What about the Dholes - wild dogs recently spotted in Ranthambore? What about leopards which stay in the rocky terrain? What about bird life? Your writer has found space to squeeze in the word, ‘birds’ in between his monotonous lament for not seeing a tiger. At the same resort, you can see at least 15 bird species at close range including hoopoes, white-bellied drongos, red-vented bulbuls and black redstarts. One photo of silhouetted birds identified as magpies is incorrect. Those are tree pies. There is no Milak Talao - it’s Malik Talao. Valmik Thapar is not a photographer. He documents tiger behaviour. In fact, Thapar’s coffee-table books display shots by others like Gunter Zeisler and Fateh Singh Rathore. Fateh Singh is better known as the Field Director of the Ranthambore not Warden.

Subhayu Mishra

By email

Well presented

The article on Dubai in the February was very interesting. I am myself a resident of Dubai and think that Hugh and Colleen Ganzter have very nicely brought out the essence of the city in their article. I know that space is a constraint in magazines and it is not possible to touch upon everything about a city like Dubai in six pages but I think the writers managed to do a good enough job. I think you should feature more Middle-Eastern destinations in your ‘Globe Trot’ segment.

Avantika Bohri

Delhi

Nice teeing

Tee Time, the article in the February issue on the emergence of golf as a corporate sport was very nicely written by Susan George. That 90 per cent of corporate CEOs tee off has come as a revelation. I am avid golf fan but my love of the sport has very little to do with its networking potential. I think the game by itself is a fantastic sport and once hooked, is almost an addiction. I hope your readers understand that charm of golf and go swing a few clubs.

Robin D’Costa

Mumbai