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Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including, one on an attack on a mosque in Madera, California, in the September 3, 2010 issue, one on the new symbol for Indian Rupee in the July 23, 2010 issue, and one on the decision of Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf to build a mosque near Ground Zero in New York City, where terrorist attacks were carried out on September 11, 2010, published in the September 3, 2010 issue.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including one on the murder of Jaspal Singh and Mahan Singhof the minority community group in Pakistan, one on the beheading of Sikh brethren in Pakistan for non-payment of jaziya, the tax on non-Muslims, and one on the blast in Pune, India.

It isn't possible to imagine a worse mess the country and the contracting parties could have gotten into than the escalating confrontation about how the spoils from the gas in the Krishna-Godavari offshore fields are to be split. It was bad enough that the Ambani brothers could not come to a settlement instead of embarking on this fratricidal war. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As Mumbai waits for the biggest ever transformation of its embedded slum township of Dharavi to begin, crucial questions about the pattern of urban development have begun to be raised. Questions about the viability and necessity of the project have been raised by members of an expert committee set up by the government to help plan the project. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]