VED
PROUD OF YOU FOR PURSUING THIS
DID SEND OUT TO OTHERS
SURPRISINGLY THOUGH THIS CULTURE DISTORTION HAS BEEN TAKING PLACE IN INDIA AND ELSE AND INDIAN GOVT OR RELIGIOUS GURUS WHOM WE ADMIRE ALL OVER THE PLACE HOPEFULLY BECOMES ACTIVE
THIS ISSUE AND SIMILAR WHERE THE CULTURE OF HERITAGE IS DISTORTED SHOULD BE LOOKED UPON LIKE THE ISSUE OF NUCLEAR DEAL BETWEEN USA AND INDIA
HOPEFULY POLITICAL PUNDITS WILL TAKE ACTIVE INTETRET
HONESTLY I AM NOT UPTO THE DETAILS OF THE LITERATURS SO TRUST THIS IS CORRECT BUT IT WILL MAKE MORE SENSE IF THE SCHOLARS FROM INDIA COME OUT OPENLY IF NOT COME ALREADY AND EXPRESS
THANKS FOR SENDING THIS TO ME
DINESH
From: Narain Bhatia [mailto:narainb@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 10:03 PM
To: Ved Chaudhary
Cc: Patel, Dinesh,M.D.
Subject: Re: FW: Demand for withdrawal of a flawed book on Hindu History published by PENGUIN Petition
Dinesh...I have signed the petition on the grounds that these newly, self appointed western scholars have no right to be both inaccurate and also make joke of our culture. Please read the petition and if you agree sign it and give it some buzz among your friends. Ved Chuadhary is a trusted friend....Narain
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Ved Chaudhary <ved.chaudhary@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Narain,Happy Holi to you and family.
yes, I have been actively working on this effort for several months.I have thoroughly read 4 chapters of the book and written my comments.other friends are reading other chapters ...We'll put together a compilation and present to the Board of U Chicago.I am working with sri S. Kalyanaraman and others for the petition and other activities.Pl sign the petition.Hope you are doing well.ThanksVed
Ved P. Chaudhary, Ph.D.
President, Educators Society for the Heritage of India (ESHI)
Former Member, Board of Trustees, Rutgers University, N.J.
Assistant Commissioner, Dept. of Environmental Protection, NJ
www.ESHIusa.org
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On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Narain Bhatia <narainb@gmail.com> wrote:
Ved,Are you aware of this?Best,Narain
From: sangeeta@gayatri.info
To: ;
Subject: Demand for withdrawal of a flawed book on Hindu History published by PENGUIN Petition
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 11:19:58 -0500
Pls sign this petition and forward it to all Hindus who are concerned abt Hinduism being misinterpreted in the modern day world.
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From: S. Kalyanaraman <kalyan97@gmail.com>
Sent: Sat, February 27, 2010 12:58:00 PM
Subject: Demand for withdrawal of a flawed book on Hindu History published by PENGUIN Petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/dharma10/petition.htmlThis is an earnest request to you to sign the online petition and forward it to your friends for signature.The petition to the Penguin Group asks for an apology for the publication of the factually incorrect and offensive book “The Hindus-An Alternative History” by Wendy Doniger. We expect Penguin Group to withdraw the book immediately.
“The Hindus: An Alternative History” is rife with numerous errors in its historical facts and Sanskrit translations. These errors and misrepresentations are bound and perhaps intended to mislead students of Indian and Hindu history.
Throughout the book, Doniger analyzes revered Hindu Gods and Goddess using her widely discredited psychosexual Freudian theories that modern, humanistic psychology has deemed limiting. These interpretations are presented as hard facts and not as speculations. Doniger makes various faulty assumptions about the tradition in order to arrive at her particular spin. In the process, the beliefs, traditions and interpretations of practicing Hindus are simply ignored or bypassed without the unsuspecting reader knowing this to be the case. This kind of Western scholarship has been criticized as Orientalism and Eurocentrism. The non Judeo-Christian faith gets used to dish out voyeurism and the tradition gets eroticized...We emphasize that this defamatory book misinforms readers about the history of Hindu civilization, its cultures and traditions. The book promotes prejudices and biases against Hindus. Can Penguin’s editors really be incompetent enough to have allowed this to pass to publication? If this is not deliberate malice, Penguin must act now in good faith.
As concerned readers, we ask PENGUIN GROUP to:
1. WITHDRAW all the copies of this book immediately from the worldwide bookshops/markets/ Universities/Libraries and refrain from printing any other edition.
2. APOLOGIZE for having published this book “The Hindus: An Alternative History”. This book seriously and grossly misrepresents the Hindu reality as known to the vast numbers of Hindus and to scholars of Hindu tradition. PENGUIN must apologize for failure to observe proper pre-publication scrutiny and scholarly review.dhanyavaadah.Kalyanaraman
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