Summer cricket tournaments are unreasonable
Though the Mumbai High Court, in response to a public interest litigation (PIL) has shifted some of the matches out of Maharashtra, India, taking into account the drought conditions in most of the state where the International Cricket Council (ICC) Indian Premiere League (IPL) matches are held, this year I think that the IPL should have been either postponed or shifted to some other country (‘A solution to water crisis evading India’, Gulf News, April 20). Every year this tournament is held in April/May, when the water crisis is most severe. It would be prudent on the part of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to shift the same into the winter season. I think the courts should issue a ruling about not conducting future IPL tournaments during the summer to save precious water!
From Mr N. Viswanathan
Virugambakkam, India
Food waste is a global tragedy
Food waste has been a hot topic in the news this year. We must remember that food is the most powerful basic necessity for human beings. Food waste is a clear indication that there is something fundamentally wrong with our civilisation.
It’s a massive problem. The statistics regarding food wastage are disturbing. People don’t realise it, but it is a sin to throw food away. Food waste is only truly waste when it ends up in a landfill.
Children at home are likely to waste more food than the other households. They are notorious food wasters. Let us help children become aware of food waste and habits are easily formed early in life. The most important step you can take to reduce food waste is to reduce your own personal wastage at home. Today’s waste is tomorrow’s shortage.
Together we can reverse the unacceptable trend and improve the lives of others. So the message is clear - Let us all stop wasting food. Let us turn this global tragedy of food waste into a new global potential.
From Ms Naresh Nanu Ria
Dubai
Is the US ready?
I would support Hilary Clinton, though I am not sure whether the US is ready to vote in a woman for the first time in history (‘Trump, Clinton win big in NY, push closer to nominations’, Gulf News, April 21).
From Mr Joseck Nyaga
UAE
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Need a redo
There isn’t any such thing as candidates to support in the US elections. It’s been programmed already and the media has done a great deal to give Donald Trump the leverage that’s eventually led him to this point. None of them are worthy enough, but as it stands the US should extend one more year to President Barack Obama while they prepare a better candidate. American wrestler John Cena would make a better candidate than Trump! Just as Bernie Sanders would make a better candidate than Clinton.
From Mr George Evans
Lake Nebagamon, US
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Loves his country
Trump is a visionary with great talents who loves his country and people with a passion. No one can match him in leading the country to make the US great again.
From Mr Kavi T.
UAE
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Cricket board needs change
We are facing problems from the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), not with the players (‘Inzamam: I don’t have a magic wand’, Gulf News, April 20). The entire cricket board will have to change or else all efforts to improve will be in vain. Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board Najam Sethi does not know what cricket is all about.
From Mr Mujahid Hussain
Dubai
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A burden to carry
It was an accident? The death of the mother is going to traumatise this child forever and it’s a burden the child will always carry (‘Saudi child kills mother while playing with father’s gun’, Gulf News, April 21). This all happened because the father was reckless enough to leave the gun in the car – loaded and ready at that!
From Ms Sandra Debby Idebu
UAE
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A real gun with a child!
I can’t believe it was real gun and that it was also loaded with bullets.
From Mr Mehermaa Mohammad
Abu Dhabi
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So irresponsible
When will people realise how dangerous it is to keep guns out? I understand that there are places where guns are allowed, that carrying a gun isn’t illegal, but there must be restrictions on how it’s kept. It astonishes me that someone would leave a loaded gun out, especially when there is a child in the mix. It’s so irresponsible.
From Mr John Arthur
Abu Dhabi
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Many potential claims
The Kohinoor is the snatched diamond. The return of the Kohinoor is the talk of the town these days (‘India now says it will try to reclaim crown jewel from UK’, Gulf News, April 21). The precious piece has a long and ambiguous history of its own. The last phase was its plunder by Nader Shah in 1739 and thereafter it exchanged hands with Ahmad Shah Durrani and was in the possession of his family until Shah Shujah Durrani from Afghanistan lost it to Ranjit Singh. It was swindled by the British East India Company through a treaty with minor Duleep Singh after the Anglo-Sikh Wars in 1846. He presented it to the British ruler as a gift. The just solution is that it should be reverted to Pakistan, being the successor state of Ranjit Singh’s kingdom after the independence and partition of India.
From Ms Lilly Awan
Islamabad, Pakistan
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No legal claim
So after India reclaims it, will they give it back to the Afghans and will they need to give it back to the other previous owners? The UK will never give it back!
The fact that it was mined in India does not give India any legal claim. The nation of India as we know it did not even exist at the time it was given to the UK. India was formed officially and recognised in 1947. Prior to that from 1858-1947 there was a period of the British control and from 1757-1858 was the period of the East India Trading Company rule. Prior to all that, India was made up of separate kingdoms including the Mughal Empire, Mysore, the Sikh Empire and the Maratha Empire.
So why India has a national claim on this diamond, I don’t know. More likely the decedents of the former ruling family of Punjab would have a legitimate claim. However, none of this matters since the British won’t return it.
From Mr Andrew Hall
UAE
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Justifying to a thief
On moral grounds, that alone should be good enough. The right of conquest seems so misplaced in this day and age. There should be nothing valid about ownership of items through past conquests. That’s like a thief, who’s broken into your home, asking you for a reasonable argument to return your own goods.
As a matter of principle, it ought to be returned. I thought the British were sticklers of principles?
From Ms Deepti Ramachandran
UAE
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Their actions, their problem
UK Prime Minister David Cameron said that if they say yes to one, the British Museum would end up being emptied. It’s not our problem that the most historical thing they own is a bunch of mysterious rocks standing up.
From Ms Sangeetha Bhaskaran
UAE
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What’s the fuss?
The Indian government is confused! First they said that they gave it to the British and now they want to reclaim it! I don’t see the fuss this stone is making. It’s just a gem, especially when it won’t bring back those who died fighting for it!
From Ms Debby I.
UAE
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It was given
Get your facts right, it was given to the British crown. There was no force. Stop making a big fuss out of nothing.
From Ms Francesca Fernandes
UAE
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