Rough route to joyrides at park

Nicco Park, in Salt Lake, is a popular amusement park. Every day, thousands of visitors, including tourists from other states and even abroad, come to this park. Most prefer taking the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass and entering Salt Lake via Chingrihata. However, the road and footpaths from Chingrihata to Nicco Park are not up to the mark. The authorities should maintain the stretch throughout the year.

Sourish Misra, Salt Lake.

Noble cause, misplaced zeal

A large number of voluntary and non-governmental organisations are going around the city collecting funds for the tsunami victims. Though the intention and the effort are praiseworthy, the organisations are often concentrating on certain localities of the city, giving the residents a harrowing time. Some are even competing with each other in the donation-collection drives. The clubs and organisations should rise above such partisan attitude and should come together in the noble effort. They can decide on which pockets each should concentrate on and, in the process, save both time and energy.

Rabindranath Kar, Sankar Ghosh Lane.

Change for the worse

My family and I were in for a shock when we went to a circus on Park Circus maidan on December 28. Along with the fire game, a few indecently-clad women also performed a belly dance. On the other hand, the trapeze show lasted only three minutes and we hardly noticed the clowns. It was a very sad experience. Why do circuses need to transform themselves in this manner to survive competition from other forms of entertainment?

Prantik Sanyal, SP Mukherjee Road.