This refers to the editorial "A pinch of salt" (April 28). It concludes: "Thus, given these uncertainties, fingers really need to be kept crossed till the actual performance of the monsoon is known by the end of the season in September". This is the crux of the issue. What then is the worth of the forecasts, no matter how we dress them up? I have argued over a long period, often in the pages of this newspaper, about the irrelevance and utter uselessness of these forecasts. Should we not have the courage at last to say the emperor has never had any clothes, even as he parades every year in what he claims to be a new (and ever more expensive) robe?
Shreekant Sambrani Vadodara
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