Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:15:47 +0100
From: Enrica Garzilli <garzilli-AT-shore.net>
Subject: Re: **Bride burning and dowry death conference at Harvard**


iview-AT-technologist.com wrote:
> 
> I must agree with Meg.  I feel that any conference organizer is already
> in a position to include or exclude based on personal, social, political
> interests, biases, and hidden agendas as well as in a position to decide
> what is "relevant."

Of course! I meant that usually the choice is very simple: what is
personally useful to him/her.
 
> By the by, this Himendra Thakur has *incorporated* "International
> Society Against Dowry & Bride-Burning in India, Inc.," USA ???  What
> kind of corporate tax right-offs and corporate coat-tail privs is he
> riding in the name of this "cause"???  Is his corporation privately
> owned or can we look at his financials???  Enquiring minds would like to
> know!!!

I asked him the same thing about finances. I called (end 1995) the MA
office for that. It seems that the financial situation of the Society is
open, but I have not gone any further. (Anyway, I know for sure that
Thakur does not make a penny with that, on the contrary, he has only
spent his own money. Check yourself.....)
***BTW, it is correct, before dusting the air around a person, to
investigate and to say facts, not suppositions. This can, sometimes
unjustly, spoil a person, especially in the USA where "perception" is
more important than facts.

Enrica