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Scientists seek President's intervention

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI March 22. A group of about 300 scientists, drawn from various research and training institutions in the country, have appealed to the President, K.R. Narayanan, to urge the Central and State Governments to take all possible measures to stop the campaign of hatred in the name of religion and prevent a repeat of the recent carnage in Gujarat.

In a memorandum to Mr. Narayanan, they expressed deep anguish over the recent happenings in Gujarat and said they were particularly perturbed that those who were constitutionally bound to protect the life and property of the people were not doing it. The recent events were a ``mockery of what we believe to be the basic tenets of science and humanism'', they said.

The appeal was signed, among others, by the scientists of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, the Indian Institute of Science, and the Raman Research Institute of Bangalore, the Indian Association for Cultivation of Science, the Indian Statistical Institute, the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, and the S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences of Kolkata, the IIT, Chennai, Kanpur and Kharagpur, the National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, New Delhi, the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, the Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, and the Institute of Physics, Bhuvaneswar. The signatories also included several NRI scientists from the University of Illinois, and Brandeis University of the U.S. and the Australian National University.

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