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In your India’s most preferred pre-schools survey 2010 (EW May), we are ranked among the top ten early childhood education institutions in Chennai. We are pleasantly surprised at the close conver-gence of your views and ours on what constitutes a good kindergarten/primary school. For the past half century and more, we have been working hard on each of the ten parameters you have mentioned, to be where we are today. We are happy to be recognised for our efforts by a magazine as well known as yours in the world of education.  Devila J. Patel Principal, Bambino Educational Trust Chennai Words of praise Thank you for the cover story ‘India’s most preferred pre-schools’ (EW May). With your professional approach and commitment to education, Education-World has been taken to a different level. Congratulations!  Lt Gen (Retd) Arjun Ray CEO, Indus International School Bangalore Gaia curriculum export Re your cover story ‘India’s most preferred pre-schools’ (EW May), it’s wonderfully written. Precise, informative and well put together. Congratulations! Thank you also for writing about Gaia Pre-school, Bangalore and about me in a way that is positive, and for airing my opinion that early childhood education should be affordable. I’d like to inform you that the Gaia pre-school programme and curriculum has been successfully exported through re-training of teachers to the students of Christel House, Bangalore and more recently, to Christel House, Lavasa which opens in June 2010. This will change the course and lives of many families quite dramatically. Thanks to this programme, Christel House kindergarten-class III children, who come from the poorest homes and are all first generation literates, can now read and write with understanding. Our aim now is to ensure that these children become self-learners and are able to compete on a par with students from any (including internat-ional) school.  Nina Kanjirath  Gaia Pre-school Bangalore Open warfare I refer to your editorial ‘Rogue bureaucracy spurring Naxalism’ (EW May). The Naxalites’ murder of 76 CRPF men is no less than an open declaration of war. The Union government must respond as it would in a war situation, and the strongest possible measures must be taken to eradicate Naxalism. India has won wars in the past, so why can’t Naxalites be eliminated forever? Air strikes/military attacks and all other similar measures must be used to end this evil insurgency. Simultaneously the Central and state governments must stimulate socio-economic reforms so that such insurgencies don’t recur in future.  M. Kumar New Delhi Ill-conceived legislation The clearance of the draft Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operations) Bill is no solution to the existing lacunae in India’s higher education system. Your editorial (EW April) gives the impression that you are supportive of this proposal. The so-called reputed universities of the world are certified on the basis of their own parameters which we should not blindly accept as universal. If there were really so many suspicions about our higher education, how has India emerged as one of the largest man-power exporters of the world? Dilip Thakore’s review (EW February)…