contd: Many economists and reporters have argued that small landholding is not the primary reason for the agricultural distress. The ground reality is very different, the suicides in Vidharbha are in stark contrast to the ones in Kuttanad(Kerala). In the latter, the local CPI-M cadres refused to bring in labour from TN or provide the machine, and the paddy fields could not be harvested! Agreed, these issues are really boring, and people like Sainath hit our conscience when fashion shows or pages after pages of IPL, ICL and the like, are easy to digest. Again, issue of climate change, another perennial theme, hundreds of articles, viewpoints and arguments, give us a break! Arsenic poisoning, a very old problem, a very old analysis, again made it as the page 1 Mint special story. Mr Dipankar Chakraborti's work is decades old. Should we go over it again? You will realise Mr Tripathi, issues are not about mere statistics or errors creeping into them, the issue is of indifference on the part of government to provide any answers. Reforms are indeed working, so says the 'Bird of Gold' report published by McKinsey exactly a year ago, but how and where and at what cost? And who is to look into these questions? Sometime back Vir Sanghvi asked this question 'who are our heroes' and also 'where have they gone'. They are here, Mr Tripathi, Sainath, Keith Bradsher, Somini Sengupta(who brought out a brilliant 3-part series on another dull topic like flood), and other reporters are heroes. If your managing editor does not give space to these heroes, toiling everyday to get to the truth, it is then that we will have the real divide, between the two Indias. They may never get a Bharat Ratna, but let us credit them and their work. Sincerely, nivedita