Dangerous experiments

Sir, - This refers to Ms. Brinda Karat's article ``Dangerous experiments'' (The Hindu, Dec. 16) about the biased attitude of the Gujarat Government towards the people belonging to minority communities in the State by falsely projecting Hindutva and imposing its so-called ideologies on tribal people. The insistence of the government on Adivasis to mention in the forms as Vanavasi to get Scheduled Tribe certificates and also distributing of mangalasutras to tribal people, are only the attempts of religious chauvinists in the government to prove to the world that the tribal people belong to the majority community i.e., Hindu.

Women in this country today are a force to reckon with. They understand the hollowness of religious claims much better than men, since the subterfuge resorted to by so-called religious leaders to instigate violence in the name of religion ends up with the nemesis that women bear the brunt of it. Religious bigots and fanatics in the country are up again with their plans to curb the freedom of women who are yet to enjoy fully their rights in a democratic setup. These fanatics now have started talking of curbing beauty pageants, which have made Indian women at international contests winning laurels to their country. Perhaps these people are suffering from an amnesia that in the recent Olympics in Sydney, it was a woman who saved the country's honour winning a bronze.

K. Usha Manohar,

Chitradurga (Karnataka)

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