FLORIDA, USA, December 2, 2005: The letter by the Hindu American Foundation to the California State School Board is posted at “source” above as a PDF file. The letter by Suhag Shukla, HAF’s legal counsel, begins:
“I am writing to you as Legal Counsel of the Hindu American Foundation, an independent, national organization that represents nearly 2 million Hindu Americans in interactions with government, media and academia. The Foundation has substantial representation in the State of California and has thus been monitoring closely the 2005 History-Social Science Primary Textbook Adoption process. The Foundation is gravely concerned with the apparent lack of due process afforded to the Hindu Education Foundation and Vedic Foundation, both of which in good faith participated in the process as representatives of California Hindus and Hindu school children. HAF is not affiliated with either of these organizations, but is intervening on behalf of our California constituency, which is distressed with the current portrayal of Hinduism and ancient India in the textbooks up for adoption as well as the disparate standards being applied to the Hindu participants of the process.”
For the full text, click “source” above.