Place Names, Anti-Feudalism and Communalism

Communalism G P D IT is not surprising that J V Deshpande (April 11) has found our writing on Abad, Nagar, etc (January 24) not quite enlightening. It was not meant to be. That he has found it entertaining is gratifying; for it was meant to be. We wish to assure him that we do not believe that our erudition (or, as some might say, the lack of it) would overwhel many body, Our modest expectation is that what we write can be at least amusing if not entertaining. Let us repeat "the two or three points" easily discernible in that piece without our kind of perhaps wonky humour.