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"People & Development" will capture the immediate attention of serious readers because of the names of the late Sri. C. Achutha Menon, Sri. Laurie Baker and Dr. K.N. Raj on the very first page. I cannot honestly say that I have read all the articles appearing in it for the simple reason that I am not interested in many of them. But I think all articles maintain a high standard of scholarship-indeed so high that I wish to request you to descend to the pedestrian level in atleast some of them so that the common man can take up your journal with as much expectation as the specialist.

There are many subjects which will hold the attention of the average intelligent man. Consider for example, Consumerism. This subject has at present seized the imagination of the commoner. We have been for long swindled by the trader and bossed by the bureaucrat. Thanks to the Con-sumer Protection Law, we can now drag them, at least some classes of them, to the seat of justice. If you explain our rights under the law, quoting examples of the decisions of the forums, it will read like a novel and be read by thousands with thanks. २९

Another subject of topical interest is the prob-lem of environment.Shortsighted, selfish and greedy exploitation is inexorably exhausting our natural resources and well-meaning men and women who boldly stand up against this are ad-vised by some politicians to go to the temple and fast. Thinking men are worried by the speed atla which we are rushing to disaster but the fool will say with king Louis XIV, "After me the deluge,"

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