Compiled by BENJAMIN LEE, CHOW HOW BAN and R. ARAVINTHAN
MALAYSIAN Hindus have been urged to reject the caste culture as it will destroy the community, says Malaysia Hindu Sangam president T. Ganesan, Malaysia Nanban reported.
He made the call during his speech at the association’s 60th anniversary celebration at the Kala Mandapam in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur.
The caste mentality continues being a blight in India and there are attempts to bring that form of segregation into this country.
He said the Indian and Hindu communities in Malaysia comprising Tamils, Telugus and Malayalis live in harmony together. They must not give in into attempts to divide them along caste lines.
> A retired judge in India welcomed home his daughter with a musical band and celebrations after she divorced her abusive husband, Makkal Osai reported.
When Pranitha Vasishta left the court after her divorce was finalised, she found her family waiting for her outside. They were wearing t-shirts with the slogan “I love Pranitha” written on them.
Her father said it was his responsibility to get his daughter out of an abusive marriage and vowed that women are not property to be treated badly.
(The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.)
