While the cultivation of paddy in Punjab (and Haryana) does need some curbing, the extreme forebodings of either total groundwater exhaustion in Punjab or of the state turning into a desert of paddy growing is not curbed forthwith are unwarranted.

Campaigns by women have been successful in curbing alcoholism among their menfolk in Manipur and Andhra Pradesh, but similar efforts have failed in Haryana and drinking there has increased.

A story in an adult literacy primer inspired women in Andhra Pradesh to take up the anti arrack drive.

A Haryana panchayat is trying to reopen a liquor vend, ostensibly to curb illegal alcohol consumption in the village.

A non govemmental organisation attempting to help women in Haryana's and Rewari district is hampered by caste factors and male chauvinism.