Write an application to the Editor of the Hindustan Times mentioning the date of the published article was wrong .
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INDIA NEWS
The art of writing letters to the editor
Over the past month, several readers have written to me complaining that HT had not published their letters. One reader said he was “hurt”, another said she was “disappointed”, a third said she was “angry”, a fourth said HT was “partial.”
By Sumana Ramanan, Senior Editor | Hindustan Times, Mumbai
UPDATED ON JUL 22, 2012 01:21 AM IST
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Over the past month, several readers have written to me complaining that HT had not published their letters. One reader said he was “hurt”, another said she was “disappointed”, a third said she was “angry”, a fourth said HT was “partial.”
I can relate to all those sentiments. Rejection does not feel good. But readers need to understand that space is limited, at least in the world of print, so if a newspaper receives more letters than it can accommodate, then the letters editor has to choose the best ones.
But even if space were unlimited, as it would be online, a newspaper may not print all the letters it receives. It may find that some are inappropriate. A newspaper is accountable for everything that it publishes, so it has to ensure that the letters pass some basic tests.
I asked HT’s letters editor, Samrat Chowdhery, what the typical problems were with letters that don’t make the cut. One recurrent flaw is that the reader has misunderstood the issue; another is that the reader has stated an opinion but has failed to then argue the case.
Sometimes, says Chowdhery, readers write about hyper-local issues that are likely to have little wider interest, such as dogs barking at night in the lane next to their house. Some letters are legally tricky — libellous, in contempt of the judiciary or problematic in other ways. A few, says Chowdhery, blatantly plagiarise matter from other opinion pieces.
Finally, of course, a letter may not suffer from any of these problems but makes a point that many others are too. In that case, the best argued and most lucid letters win out.
This is not the place for me to hold forth on the art of argumentation, rules of rhetoric or logical fallacies, but I will offer three tips to readers that might increase the chances of their letters make it