For Chris' sakes. That was intended to be funny. Give me a break, do.
I never comment on religion or respond to the religious, of whatever confession. If ever I do, it is safe to assume that it is an attempt at humour. In this case, a terribly misplaced attempt. --- 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, 7:39 PM > 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/ > > > > > > Own a website.Get an unlimited package.Pay next to nothing.*Go to http://in.business.yahoo.com/
