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Only
letters that laud the PatnaDaily seem
to be published here. We need critical
analysis of news from Bihar by the
viewers. It is true that PatnaDaily
cannot be critical of the ruling junta
due to fear of recriminations in a
political administration that is
autocratic, anarchist and dictatorial
mockery of democracy.
I guess PatnaDaily must move its
operations out of Patna so that, when
needed, it can criticize the
government and its policies that are
driving down Bihar in terms of
physical and spiritual progress.
PatnaDaily is good but it must quit
carrying only letters of praise and
commendations. We need more than that.
PatnaDaily readers are smart people
and soon tire of the laudatory tone of
all the letters.
Prawasi
Editor's reply:
First,
thank you for visiting PatnaDaily.Com.
We hope you'll continue to visit us on
a regular basis.
As for
your criticism that we publish only
those letters that sing the praise of
PatnaDaily.Com, we make absolutely no
apology for that.
 PatnaDaily.Com is the result of a few
people who have immense love and
respect for the city and state
regardless of all of its negativity.
This site is absolutely free and
unlike other Web sites of India, we
don't annoy you to death by thousands
of blinking ads, hundreds of
irritating and irrelevant pop-up screens,
barraging you with tons of junk mails
or publishing stale jokes that are a
decade old making fun of Biharis.
Heck, we don't even ask you to
register with us, like many of the
other sites force you to do before
allowing you to enter.
We don't
make any money by providing you the
wealth of information and news that we
make available to you on a 24x7x365
basis. So what's the reward for us?
Besides self-satisfaction and a sense
of accomplishment, it's the letters of
our readers that keep us going. Even a
one-line congratulatory message from
one of our visitors is more gratifying
than hundreds of rupees put together.
You may
now ask that besides publishing the
"positive" notes, we should make room
for critical letters as well. Quite
a reasonable question. However, there is just one small
catch in that. These "critical"
letters soon turn into "abusive"
letters. We have received our share of
such letters; letters that use
four-letter words to describe the
current RJD government in Bihar,
letters that curse the Vajpayee
government like there is no tomorrow
and so on.
Frankly,
we don't have to take such abuse since
we don't owe anything to anyone. We
can shut this site down in a heartbeat
and save ourselves several thousands of rupees
each year. But like I said earlier,
it's the simple, heartwarming letters of our visitors
that keep us motivated.
This is
not to say that we don't get critical
and intelligent letters. However, we
neither have time nor willingness to
go through such long, analytical,
mostly abusive letters that will
attract even more such letters from
opposing groups and hence the
decision to avoid them completely.
As you said, PatnaDaily's readers are
smart people and we believe they are
capable of bringing the necessary
changes in Bihar with our without
PatnaDaily.Com.
We don't know what future holds for
PatnaDaily.Com but for now we will
stick to our current policies.
We hope
this clarifies our stand.
Thanks
again for taking time to write to us
and hoping this would not deter you
from visiting PatnaDaily.Com.
Editor,
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