Letter of appreciation

IT TAKES a trusted bridge builder to carry on despite the negative responses that you, as the editor, have had to receive.

Yes, I am writing about the experiences of Muslim women regarding the hijab in India. So I pen this letter of appreciation.

Thank you, Mr Editor, for your editorials and public interest articles.

History, I assure you, will hold you out as the person who took difficult, emotive topics and published them for discussion.

With regard to the hijab story, you succeeded in many ways and no, it was not an issue that respondents trivialised.

Just like the story of Sunali Pillay, whose mother challenged a school ban regarding a nose stud that her daughter used as a symbol of a young Hindu woman coming of age, the hijab issue is equally deserving of accommodation in the broader community of respect and tolerance.

In the Sunali matter, her mother took it all the way to the Constitutional Court to assert her right.

May you and POST grow with the accolade so richly earned.

Thank you and your team for week after week of serious informative reading.