Letters from Readers
Thank you for Americana!
Dear Mr. Fitzpatrick,
Allow me to introduce myself as one of thousands
of regular readers of your column Americana in Khabar (last article, Americana's Last Mile, January, 2019).
Over the years of reading your columns I feel as if I have
known you for a very long time, and I initially addressed
this email as “Dear Bill.” I am a 64-year-old guy who
migrated to the U.S. in 1983. I have spent more of my
adult life in the U.S. than in my home country, India.
From 1983 I started to learn and adapt to American
culture. I have seen how things have changed
in this short amount of time I have been here. I can
totally relate to your feeling of loss, not just in the U.S.
but also when I visit India. It seems that with progress
we have lost innocence, honesty, caring, empathy, and
other values.
Anyway, I think you are a gifted writer and know
how to touch someone deep to their core. I will miss
you and your columns. I wish you the very best.
Sincerely,
Your one-sided friend,
Tushar Sheth
by email
Dear Bill,
After reading your last column in Khabar, I felt sad
that this nice piece is coming to an end. This was the
column I would go to when I saw Khabar sitting on my
kitchen island.
I will miss this column very much. Thank you for
giving us so much knowledge over the years.
Prof. Naren Vyavahare
Hunter Endowed Chair of Bioengineering
Clemson University, South Carolina
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Inspiring insights on the art of happiness
Uma and Geeta,
Your articles are VERY inspiring (“Insights:How Are Your New Year’s ResolutionsComing?” February 2019, Part 1 by Dr. Uma Majmudar;Part 2 by Geeta Mehrotra). I’m honored to know each
of you. Gandhi, “Father of India,” the world’s biggest
democracy, would surely support your views and
insight. 2019 can punctuate your positions since it’s the
Sesquicentennial (150th) of Gandhi’s Birth (1869) and
Dr. King’s 90th Birth Anniversary (1929).
It’s exciting to
know that Dr. King continues to call all of us to remember
Gandhi’s leadership example through this MLK
quote: “We may ignore Gandhi at our own risk.”
And
it’s especially exciting to know about Gandhi’s vision
from 1930, given this quote from him: “To call woman
the weaker sex is a libel; it is man’s injustice to woman.
If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is
woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant
moral power, then woman is immeasurably man’s
superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more
self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance,
has she not greater courage? Without her, man
could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the
future is with woman. Who can make a more effective
appeal to the heart than woman?”
John R. Naugle
online comment
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Navya’s zeal for writing is commendable
I congratulate the author for her zeal in writing (“Budding author Navya Sarikonda shares her passionfor writing” February 2019, online-only CommunityNewsmakers). Probably she might have inherited her skill. Her thought process and social outlook will definitely keep her high in the days ahead. I wish her many more creations in the future. I pray my god Ramadoota Swamy to bless her in this endeavour.
T. Purna Chandra Raju
online comment, from India
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