Jews often joined our Hindu protests in London back in time. We worked together on the rising jihadist hate against Jews and Hindus going back nearly 20 years when the police and government ignored all warning signs of what was coming which now we are presently seeing and it’s going to get much worse yet [...]
The contemporary stereotypes about Brahmins and the story about Brahminism … originate in Christian theology. They reproduce Protestant images of the priests of false religion. When European missionaries and merchants began to travel to India in great numbers, they held two certainties that came from Christian theology: false religion would exist in India; and false [...]
The controversy about Penguin India’s decision to withdraw and pulp Wendy Doniger’s The Hindus: An Alternative History brings to the surface issues likely to trouble scholars of India for years to come. First, the obvious: the banning of any book violates academic or intellectual freedom. Rightly so, this leads to moral indignation among the intelligentsia of India [...]
February 22, 2014
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