Mr. Mike, what are trying to prove through the lengthy and unending arguments through this column? Do you want all Hindus to believe in the utterings of a menatlly deranged, epileptic Camel driver, whose first wife was a widow old enough to be his mother and last one was young enough to be his great grand daughter? As a Hindu, I am free to believe or not believe in god (and I opted for the later)and I am not bound by only ONE BOOK. Majority of Hindus do not consider what is written in the Vedas or Puranas as revelations of the God, but as mythologies. For your kind information, there was no Devadasi system in Kerala. On the contraty the ownership of jointly family property rested with the women and the senior most male member (Karta) was only a trusty. The main reason for the backwardness of the Muslim community in India is due to the insistance of a few mad mullas to cling to what is written in a book in the context of another country about 1400 years back rather than changing with the times.
