Dear Panditji
Gobar Times gives information about environment and our country. It gives us tips on how to save ourselves from destruction. Children specifically need these. In JPIC (my school) we are taught ways to save plants and trees and take care of our environment. We all are trying to do these activities and save our natural and also social Environment. Gobar Times is fantastic! More and more people should read it. I must say, “East or west, your work is the Best”! Keep it up!

Rupashree
Kolkata

Dear Pandit Ji,
Hello! I read Gobar Times at my friend’s place. And I immediately decided to write a letter to you. Your magazine is amazing! I really liked the Ad issue. I also liked the ’Open Forum’ stories on Inuit and Tornadoes. I made my own tornado at home as well! The little Cowpats are also very interesting and the illustrations are really funny! Please talk about some more Forces. I would love to read about them!

Saira Khan
Via e-mail

Dear Panditji,
I really liked this month’s issue of Gobar Times! The information is very interesting. The Open Forum story on Tornadoes is very nice. I actually tried the formula at home. It was great. It’s very interesting to read about things that scare you. The Eskimo one was also very good. The cartoon was very funny! The cowpats are interesting as always. I just love Gobar Times!

Piyush
Via e-mail

Dear Panditji,
Gobar Times has brought a change in the way I look at things. The infusion of environmental values in an informal way and through cartoons will surely help the future generation.

Michelle
Via email

Dear Panditji,
I’m a big fan of Gobar Times. I like the issues that you take up. Your last issue on Advertisements pre-empted the role of film stars’ in the ’cola controversy’. The “great hero” of Bollywood praising cola was irritating!

I wonder why people cannot understand that though our daily meals or fruits have more pesticides than a bottle of cola, they are essential for our survival and colas are not. Food items like rice or apples are doing us at least some good, but what are colas good for? They are just taste bud-ticklers and “stylish”. As you mentioned that it is hip to do certain things like drinking cola and not nimbupani.

Moreover, we are here talking about a finished item or packaged good. Fruits and vegetables are not packaged. Pesticides in them are still understandable. But, why in a packaged item like cola?

The cola companies can spend immense money in advertising their products and paying stupid film stars to say cola is safe, but they cannot “purify” their product and make it pesticide-free.

I think Gobar Times should also write about the issue so that even kids (the primary readers, I believe) can know more about it. The stuffs in Down To Earth are a little too “high standard” for the kids. They are the most vulnerable group and thus, it becomes the primary role of Gobar Times to involve them in the matter. Explain things to them in easy-to-understand language and hopefully a great deal would happen. Even if one kid opts out of cola and grabs a glass of nimbupani, your job is worth it!

Abdullah
Via e-mail