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The Hindu : Corporal punishmentRegarding the article “To cane or not to cane” (MetroPlus, March 24), there is no doubt that corporal punishment should be banned. Severe punishment will leave children traumatised.Nirmala Narayanan(by e-mail)Truthfully yoursThis is with reference to the article “Be true, be you” by Anoop Bharadwaj. If I had to write something, it would be the exact same thing that Anoop has mentioned in his article.Divya Fernando(by e-mail)Perspective mattersI agree with Gayathri Bakthavasalu views (“On the Lookout”, MetroPlus, February 12) about the status of the people living in India and abroad. We need not worry about the behaviour of other people.But we can change our angle of vision and automatically our worries about others will vanish.Rtn.Dr.Er.N.K.D.Andavar(by e-mail)Generation gapAlthough I liked C.K. Meena’s article “Papa was a rolling stone” (City Lights, March 12), I felt she was romanticising the past. I’m one of those “20-somethings who think we are lucky”. It would be incorrect to make a blanket statement about us saying we are too structured, or that we had it very easy with our parents. I believe that we inherited this world from the elders, and that if we behave a certain way, it’s part choice and part in conformity with society’s norms. In these times one just can’t be a free bird till 25, chase the rainbow and then return to a family life, which pretty much was the case in the Seventies. If today an average middle class child does not start competing from the age of 10, she will not “make it”. We like listening to Dylan, we are deeply interested in politics, but we think we can do all this, and be all we want to be, while remaining bound by society’s shackles (which were forced on us, by the way). It is these 70’s rebels that now start teaching their kids Bharatanatyam and tabla at age three so that the resume…More