The frenetic pace of modern life has desensitised us to the deleterious effects of noise on our physical and psychological well-being (“Can we have some silence, please?”, June 23). The adage ‘silence is golden’ has lost appeal in today’s age as a virtue. We have stopped treating noise as a serious problem and decided to coexist with it as an evil that cannot be eliminated. The war on noise has to start from the realisation that it is a public health hazard.
V.N. Mukundarajan,
Thiruvananthapuram
The author rightly asks for a meditative state for our society. Silence is one of the many ways in which we communicate with each other. Often the most powerful things can be said by not saying anything. Silence sometimes conveys emotion better than speech.
C.V. Venugopalan,
Palakkad
