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: What authority does the Maharashtra Nav Nirman Sena supremo have to ban the Bachchan family’s films in Mumbai or to order people to boycott the commodities advertised by some of the Bachchans? In making such a call, Raj Thackeray has raised the pitch of linguistic fanaticism to an unprecedented level. Of course, one should be proud of one’s mother tongue. But this does not mean that those speaking other languages are one’s enemies. The Bachchans are from UP and they speak Hindi, so why should Jaya Bachchan have to apologise for launching a Hindi movie in Hindi, instead of Marathi?

—Shailesh Kumar, Bangalore

Bad feed

As argued in FE on Sep 9, the inefficiencies of PDS are now beyond repair. We need to explore alternative mechanisms for feeding the poor, like food stamps.