Penguin to axe Wendy Doniger's controversial book The Hindus: An Alternative History

[Naina_Marbus]

Share:

Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn WhatsApp Email Share Link

........
Why are the so called pseudo secularists who were pounding Penguin for removing the anti Hindu book, silent?

Because for these sick(ularist) pseudos, only two things matter: 1) what the muslims like/want and 2) what the muslims don't like/want.
But the muslims are finally waking up. Read this article: http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/lucknow/deoband-cleric-declares-support-for-modi/

 

[sarang]

Two extracts from a post by Sunthar V in akandabaratam group are of interest.

1. All including brahmins are minorities in India - Ambassador Jayashankar. All (including some foul mouths) who claim to act for minorities have vested interests, only antibrahminism.

Towards the end of the Q&A after Ambassador Jaishankar’s lunch briefing this Thursday on “India’s Defining Moment” before the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, an Indian woman’s voice from the front feared for “the protection of minorities” and “freedom of speech” in the same breath. Rejecting such fears as unwarranted and exaggertaed, soft-spoken Jaishankar (who hails from an illustrious Tamil Brahmin family…) retorted that there are only minorities in India and that he himself belongs to one. Given its communal diversity and unique history, Indian democracy has specific understandable constraints, such as respecting the sensitivities of faith-based communities. Since the Indian Government has not banned the ‘offensive’ book, she should ask Penguin why it has not continued the battle in court (perhaps its case was even otherwise flawed? SV).

2. Wendy is not popular with many academics in american universities too.


Mark my words: before long the University of Chicago will publicly disassociate itself from Wendy’s long shadow, if not out of principle at least out of greed…

 

[sarang]

Two extracts from a post by Sunthar V in akandabaratam group are of interest.

1. All including brahmins are minorities in India - Ambassador Jayashankar. All (including some foul mouths) who claim to act for minorities have vested interests, only antibrahminism.

"Towards the end of the Q&A after Ambassador Jaishankar’s lunch briefing this Thursday on “India’s Defining Moment” before the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, an Indian woman’s voice from the front feared for “the protection of minorities” and “freedom of speech” in the same breath. Rejecting such fears as unwarranted and exaggertaed, soft-spoken Jaishankar (who hails from an illustrious Tamil Brahmin family…) retorted that there are only minorities in India and that he himself belongs to one. Given its communal diversity and unique history, Indian democracy has specific understandable constraints, such as respecting the sensitivities of faith-based communities. Since the Indian Government has not banned the ‘offensive’ book, she should ask Penguin why it has not continued the battle in court (perhaps its case was even otherwise flawed?" SV).

2. Wendy is not popular with many academics in american universities too.

"Mark my words: before long the University of Chicago will publicly disassociate itself from Wendy’s long shadow, if not out of principle at least out of greed…" SV

 

[sarang]

Katherine Mayo and her controversial book ‘Mother India’

Mayo wrote a similar derogatory book on india and indians in 1927. Mahatma gandhi's comment on the book in young india is this:

"Thisbook is cleverly and powerfully written. The carefully chosen quotations giveit the false appearance of a truthful book. But the impression it leaves on mymind is that it is the report of a drain inspector sent out with the onepurpose of opening and examining the drains of the country to be reported upon,or to give a graphic description of the stench exuded by the opened drains. IfMiss Mayo had confessed that she had come to India merely to open out andexamine the drains of India, there would perhaps be little to complain abouther compilation. But she declared her abominable and patently wrong conclusionwith a certain amount of triumph: 'the drains are India'."
About the book:

Written against the demands for self-rule and Indian independence from the British Raj, Mayo alluded to the treatment of India's women, the Dalits, the animals, the dirt and the character of its nationalistic politicians. Mayo singled out the "rampant" and fatally weakening sexuality of its males to be at the core of all problems, leading to masturbation, rape, homosexuality, prostitution and venereal diseases and, most importantly, to too early sexual intercourse and premature maternity. Mayo's claims were supported by British Indian authorities as a countermeasure to growing sympathies for the Indian Independence Movement against British rule in the region. The book was thus received enthusiastically by British authorities and propagated among Americans

 

[Naina_Marbus]

Here is a self-serving article titled "A bonfire of free speech" by Jyotirmaya Sharma, Siddharth Varadarajan in the March 04, 2014 issue of hindustantimes A bonfire of free speech - Hindustan Times

The funniest part of the article is this:

“Some, including the two of us, have registered our anger by asking Penguin to cancel our own book contracts and pulp whatever copies remain lest we too be sold down the river by a publisher that does not have the stomach to defend the titles it brings out. As of this writing, our demands have still not been accepted.”

Do they think that they are such laureates that Penguin’s reputation and finances are dependent on the book contracts entered with these sickularists?