AHMEDABAD, INDIA, September 9, 2002: NRI Sadbhavna Mission to India has collected $1 million from the NRIs living in the US, of which 80% has already been distributed for the riot-affected people. Names of the organizations through which these funds were disbursed, cannot be revealed “because some of them have been threatened,” says Shrikumar Poddar of the NRI Sadbhavna Mission to India, which is visiting Gujarat for the first time since the riots. Aditi Desai, a member of the delegation and UN consultant based in New York, said, “We have come as human beings, and we have not slept nights thinking about what was going on here. We could not face the humiliation abroad when people told us this is happening in your country. The strong Hindutva influences, as spread by the spokespersons of Hinduism, had spread even in the US, where attempts were being made to interpret history in a different way,” she told TNN.
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