PRAGOTI

The world should love the lovers and encourage marriage outside of caste endogamy and reject the diktats of the murderous Khap panchayats, whose edicts against "same gotra marriages" have however wrongly received grudging acceptance from certain circles, in the name of genetics. Freedom of choice of marriage partners is the way out, in the battle against increase of recessive genetic factors among the Indian population. Scientist and popular science activist T.V.Venkateswaran of the All India Peoples' Science Movement, explains in a well argued article.