From: "Salil Tripathi" <salil61-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: 
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 15:10:59 +0000


Dharmini

I used the word "scary" in describing the financial support the VHP is 
getting from the British Government, through the National Lottery. And the 
fact that it is one of the groups consulted in designing the course 
curriculum for religious education as part of school education in the UK. 
Given the VHP's performance in Gujarat and beyond in India, such support and 
recognition for the VHP is a scary prospect -- for young students in 
Britain, and, I daresay, for the many Hindus who do not believe that the VHP 
represents them.

As for the Hindu Students' Councils in universities -- I suppose they're 
fine, so long as it is not a state-funded activity, and so long as the 
state/university does not fund activities of other religions either.

Salil

Salil


>From: Dharmini Patel <dharmini73-AT-hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 09:21:14 -0500
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>Can someone please explain to me what is so "scary" about having a Hindu
>Student Council in universities?  I hope I am mistaken and that this
>reference is something that I missed in an earlier posting.
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