Ok, You make me sound like I'm actually on a side. I will rephrase my sentence, if that makes you happy.
I will take back that I'm going to read that book for fun statement. Instead, honestly I want to know the other alternative view point and I'm a person who reads and want to know all view points. Guha's books are more of selected facts based on selected research and most of them are accurate and valid. But still I still stand to my view that he carefully writes the way he wants. Anyone who reads his book can make that out. Did I say there was no Hindu Mahasabha and they were an organization without flaws ? You are only bringing that here. And as for your points on why they wont burn his books, Guha hardly writes any stuffs that are viewed sensitively like Arun Shourie who wrote a book on Ambedkar and was dragged into streets and abused physically and that book was subsequently banned. You seem to forget that Hindu Mahasabha got chided out for protesting against partition, which itself is root of many communal problems plaguing out country these days. -- Bharat On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Bonobashi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > --- On Wed, 29/4/09, Bharat Shetty <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Bharat Shetty <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [silk] Another Incarnation (Book Review of 'The Hindus, An >> Alternate History') >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Wednesday, 29 April, 2009, 6:35 PM >> Ah Kiran, >> >> I knew before that Doniger and Pankaj Mishra are both >> generally well >> criticized writers. Mishra's posts have been criticized and >> proved to >> be hollow before and these are the types of writers who >> along with >> Martha Nausbaum try to write carefully as to make their >> side of >> argument stand out. > > > As opposed to the other type of writer who try to write carelessly 'as to > make their side of argument' stand in? > > > >> >> Ramachandra guha is another example. He would cleverly >> filter out >> non-Nehru and non-congress stuffs from his books. > > > > What an abomination! You mean there's nothing at all on the Hindu Mahasabha > in this base, rotten scoundrel's books? Why don't they ban him, and then burn > his book? Preferably while he's holding its only printed copy? > > >> >> So I would pick a low priced copy of this book just for the >> reading fun :-) > > > Reading fun? Reading is serious stuff, to be attended to in suitably earnest > mood, with some tissues at one's side. What fun? > > >> -- Bharat >> >> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan >> <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > 2009/4/29 Bharat Shetty <[email protected]> >> > >> >> Ok, fairly interesting book. >> > >> > >> > Looks like Doniger is somebody whose scholarship >> disputed and has a fairly >> > strong inclination to favor a sexual interpretation of >> Hindu texts. But as >> > the article below points out, this malaise has spread >> throughout US Hinduism >> > studies. >> > >> > http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Hinduism/2004/06/U-S-Hinduism-Studies-A-Question-Of-Shoddy-Scholarship.aspx?p=1 >> > >> > This particular excerpt from the article was enough to >> convince me that she >> > should be read with a pinch of salt - >> > >> > [University of Chicago professor Wendy Doniger has >> been quoted in the >> > Philadelphia Inquirer calling the Bhagavad Gita, a >> sacred Hindu text, "a >> > dishonest book" that "justifies war."] >> > >> > I'm no scholar of the Gita, but I have read 4 >> > versions/translations/interpretations, and I'm >> confused on how she arrived >> > at this conclusion. The wikipedia article doesn't >> speak too highly of her >> > either (though it is disputed), so you if you are >> reading it, you might want >> > to check out the talk section for it too. >> > >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Doniger >> > >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wendy_Doniger >> > >> > But if you do manage to find a lower priced India >> copy, do let me know. I'm >> > poor too :) >> > >> > Kiran >> > >> >> > > > Bollywood news, movie reviews, film trailers and more! Go to > http://in.movies.yahoo.com/ > >
