Date:13/10/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/10/13/stories/2008101352711005.htm

Opinion - Letters to the Editor

Power shutdown

For centuries non-whites could not walk on the pavements in South Africa. It occurred only to Gandhiji that all men being equal he must fight non-violently to win the right. One of the basic lessons of his life was ‘wherever there is injustice it must be fought.’

Non-adherence to this principle has cost us too dear to be described. The temerity with which the Tamil Nadu Electricity Minister talks about increasing the duration of power-cut is humiliating. In non-metro areas it lasts six and a half hours or more a day.

A. Thirugnana Sambandamoorthy,

Chengalpattu