I was surprised and disappointed to see the cover of Outlook’s yearend special, where Goddess Lakshmi is shown with a mobile in one hand, car keys in another, listening to an iPod, with sundry multi-storey flats and credit cards in her kalashas. You could desist from using images of Hindu gods to illustrate your materialistic concerns.
Sandip Agnihotri, Mumbai
Sunil Khilnani’s piece The Blurred Horizon (Jan 10) was interesting. Politics is fast becoming a lucrative profession in this country, so no surprises that we have more politicians than anywhere else in the world but not a single worthy mass leader. It’s true that an affluent Dalit political class has emerged but it too seems to have the same agenda of subjugation and vendetta as of those it opposed so vehemently.
R.K. Sudan, Jammu
The ‘Antilia’ reference to Mukesh Ambani’s Mumbai megalith was a nice touch, for even aesthetics-wise it looks rather like the work of a suspended Delhi Development Authority architect.
Kabir Das, Perth
Clarification: In the story, a reference was made to ‘Antilias and Andamans’. The latter was a typo, it should be Anandam, which is the new name the owners are planning for the building.
What a jealous bunch of sour grapes! At least Ambani Jr is spending the money in India!
Ashok Patel, Leicester
