Thanks for posting your thoughts on how to launch the best selling books. You are confirming Dr Tilak’s theory on “Wendy Doniger does a doggie”
http://bit.ly/cJUb5I

Given Wendy’s penchant to denigrate Hindu icons and culture, by your logic she should be beating J K Rawlings in sales. Nevertheless, one can say mediocrity can be pushed only so far despite her ignorant gunga-din warriors.

You can continue to stand besides her it’s your prerogative. Same way the other Hindus have the right to protest against her (in every peaceful manner) – without being called names. Maybe a concept foreign to you. Anyone with an iota of decency would have apologized for comparing peaceful protests by citizens to the most oppressive regime in modern times.

And given the “outrage” on your bogus tears for Wendy has brought forth, you and your company sales should be sky-rocketing too. Woo-hoo!! Please, don’t spend it all in one place.

Microsoft? As a bastion of western culture. Oh dear.

I still standby her right to write, publish and sell her book and we can protest it all we like but in this free world we supposedly live in, everyone has the right, including your charming self, to express their opinions and have then heard if there is a market or a platform.

The irony is that your protests have actually increased sales of the book. One could argue that you have done more for her popularity than anyone else could ever have done.

Well done!!!

I also suggest you launch your own blog and write your own authorized History of Hinduism. Then get your friends to protest against it and next thing you too might have a best seller!

Washington Post has nice article on this subject. Doubt the Talibani moderator censoring this website will post this online.

Short url: http://bit.ly/awHDnI

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/aseem_shukla/2010/03/whose_history_is_it_anyways.html

So Microsoft withdrew her article in 2003 eh? Bloody Talibani Microsoft no?

Next time you pick a cause, do some research before it boomerangs back. But then your research efforts are only on par with that of Wendys.

I trust an apology by you for calling peaceful Hindus as Taliban might be expecting too much? No?

Raja Choudhury claims that he does not belong to RISA. Yet, it appears that a RISA member has passed on the Raja Choudhury drafted petiton.

Raja Choudhury owes a clarification in the name of free speech.

See a posting on RISA list.

From: Deepak Sarma
To: +++RISA ACADEMIC DISCUSSION LIST+++
Sent: Tue, March 9, 2010 9:57:29 AM
Subject: [RISA-L LIST] counter-petition in support of Doniger

Greetings All:
Some RISA-L members have brought to my attention a counter-petition that is circulating in support of Doniger. They have asked me to post the note accompanying the counter-petition as well as the link (http://petol.org/THAAH123) (embedded in the note). It appears that the author of the counter-petition is Raja Choudhury, whom I know nothing about. I am posting this on behalf of this member, who wished to remain anonymous.

yours,

Deepak
RISA-L admin