Apropos of the news story “Nepali team hits all-time low” (THT, November 29, Page 12), it is out and out humiliation of our nation.

It will not be fair to blame the players for this as they were thrust into the responsibility that they were not ready for, mentally and physically. The blame should go to the people that put such a team together at such high expense.

The players certainly need many years of hard, grueling, competitive practice for them to make a dent in the international stage.

For this, apart from their personal dedication and sacrifices, they would need years of match practice against competitive teams, which they can avail of in Patna or Ranchi or even Sitamarhi.

No need to go to Thailand or London. But, first, the sports mandarins must find out the physical and mental traits and aptitudes of the players to decide if they have what it takes to be good cricketers.

You cannot simply thrust a bat or a ball and send anyone onto the field. Players must be selected purely from the sports point of view and nothing else.

Unfortunately, using the proportional representation criteria may not bear desired fruits in sports in which the only thing that matters is winning.

Manohar Shrestha, Kathmandu

Sacrifice

Animal Nepal was very pleased to hear that Baba Ramdev spoke out against animal sacrifice which has always been our organisation’s mission as well.

We believe that people who are experts in the Hindu religion are the ones who should speak out against a practice created through the misinterpretations.

We hope that more eminent Hindu figures from India and Nepal speak out against animal sacrifice and educate the public about the futility of continuing with this practice.

Pramada Shah, Animal Nepal

Options

It clearly shows that in India prostitution is tolerated rather accepted as a ‘necessary evil”.

We all know how a girl child is received in our society at birth and how she grows with the stigma all along. Our society has been unjust to them since time immemorial.

Today the girls are terrorised and harassed to such an extent that the victims are left with no alternative but to surrender to the whims and fancies of their masters and thus enter into the flesh trade.

The children who grow in such an environment are shattered psychologically. At a very young age they see the most sordid aspect of life. They see their mothers entertaining customers from evening till the early hours of dawn.

It is very important to take away the children from their mothers for their future development. The prostitutes also think that their children should get economic security.

The anxious mothers always wish that their children should not become a part of the world of crime.

In the absence of any well-planned, long-term measures these children tend to live in an environment which is not conductive for a healthy future. Preventive, protective and rehabilitative measures for children of prostitutes are necessary.

Vinod C. Dixit, Ahmedabad