{"id":5263,"date":"2007-12-26T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T09:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2007-12-26T14:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T09:07:00","slug":"open-letter-to-pratibha-patil-regarding-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/open-letter-to-pratibha-patil-regarding-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Pratibha Patil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Pratibha Patil<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/report.asp?newsid=1141498\" title=\"400 trees chopped down for President&#8217;s visit\">I read in <i>DNA<\/i> today<\/a> that 400 trees have been chopped off in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands as preparation for your visit there. The report says that some of these were cut &#8220;since they blocked the view of the beach from where the President would be sitting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy your stay there. Have a great 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Regards<\/p>\n<p>Amit Varma<\/p>\n<p>*&nbsp;  *&nbsp;  *<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"\/celebrating-pratibha-patil\/\" title=\"Celebrating Pratibha Patil -- Amit Varma\">Previously&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>*&nbsp;  *&nbsp;  *<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: Reader Rex Mathew draws my attention to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindu.com\/2006\/12\/15\/stories\/2006121517620400.htm\" title=\" President's office orders planting of saplings\">what Ms Patil&#8217;s predecessor did<\/a> in a similar situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Pratibha Patil<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/report.asp?newsid=1141498\" title=\"400 trees chopped down for President&#8217;s visit\">I read in <i>DNA<\/i> today<\/a> that 400 trees have been chopped off in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands as preparation for your visit there. The report says that some of these were cut &#8220;since they blocked the view of the beach from where the President would be sitting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy your stay there. Have a great 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Regards<\/p>\n<p>Amit Varma<\/p>\n<p>*&nbsp;  *&nbsp;  *<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/celebrating-pratibha-patil\/\" title=\"Celebrating Pratibha Patil -- Amit Varma\">Previously&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,41,15,4,17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dear Pratibha Patil - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/open-letter-to-pratibha-patil-regarding-trees\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dear Pratibha Patil - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dear Pratibha Patil I read in DNA today that 400 trees have been chopped off in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands as preparation for your visit there. 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