Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 21:21:20 -0500
From: lizzy <lizzy-AT-flakeysol.com>
Subject: Re: My reply to the "Bride burning conference" organiz


Partha - I'm reading my mail backwards - so appreciate your tellingme
this. Those buzzards should be picketed. You should have been among the
first invited to speak! So much cruelty and worse is done in the name of
religion! What fools men are. But it does make obvious the ultimate war.
Lizzy

 
> Here is my email reply to Mr. H. B. Thakur (cc'd to Dr. Micheal Witzel of
> Harvard), the conference organizer and sponsor. 
> 
> Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and its parent organization RSS symbolize
> social and political power that represents oppression on weaker sections of
> the Indian society including women. Just very recently, VHP thugs went on
> an "exorcism" rampage on women in the state of Gujarat and manhandled
> workers of NGOs who opposed that barbaric ritual. Previously, RSS, BJP, and
> VHP leaders supported suttee during the infamous Roop Kanwar case in
> Rajasthan.
> 
> In my newly published book (published from Delhi), I have shown how
> anti-women RSS, BJP, and VHP are. In fact, dowry deaths could not have been
> such a menace in India had these forces not been so powerful in the
> epicenter of the problem, i.e., the "cow belt."
> 
> It is beyond belief that they are now trying to project themselves as the
> saviors of the suffering Indian women. I find that a travesty.
> 
> Thanks for your attention and consideration.
> 
> -Partha Banerjee