The report, “TTD to pay compensation as ‘assaulted pilgrim dies’” (June 27), leaves one at a loss for words.
A few years ago I was witness to an elderly gentleman ahead of me in a queue being pushed around by the security personnel just when he was about to have a ‘darshan’ after waiting for hours. His traumatised expression and his pleading eyes fixed on the cruel faces of those who troubled him still disturb me.
The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams needs to think about imparting a more humane touch to the way it regulates darshans.
T.V. Sreekumar,
Puducherry
