Subject: India: Audio recordings from ’Speaking of the Hindus’ Delhi seminar - 6 March 2014
Date: March 6, 2014 12:57:00 PM PST
Audio recordings from ’Speaking of the Hindus’ Delhi seminar - 6 March 2014
with Profs. DN Jha, Kunal Chakrabarti, Apoorvanand, Chair: Prof. Romila Thapar.
(on the withdrawal of Wendy Doniger’s book, shriking secular space and
the freedom to read)
with Profs. DN Jha, Kunal Chakrabarti, Apoorvanand, Chair: Prof. Romila Thapar.
(on the withdrawal of Wendy Doniger’s book, shriking secular space and
the freedom to read)
Posters for the second AK Ramanujan lecture and seminar at Delhi University 6th March 2014
by , 1 March
See related content at: http://www.sacw.net/article7809.html
Harsh Kapoor sent the links and material to Steve Farmer who posted on the anti-hindu hate group. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/indo-eurasian_research/conversations/messages/16623
THE WITHDRAWAL OF WENDY DONIGER’S BOOK, SHRIKING SECULAR SPACE AND THE FREEDOM TO READIndia: Audio recordings from ’Speaking of the Hindus’ Delhi seminar - 6 March 2014
WITH FULL TEXT OF STATEMENTS BY WENDY DONIGER AND BY KUM KUM ROY READ OUT AT THE SEMINAR
by , 6 March
The following statement by Prof. Wendy Doniger was read out at the seminar:I would love to greet the speakers at your seminar and lecture, and to thank them for doing the work that they are doing.
You might add that although the fate of my books, and all the other books that have come under fire, and will now come under fire, is still uncertain, the unexpected scale and power of the protest against the suppression of books in India is most heart-warming.
I am confident that this movement will ultimately succeed in mobilizing Indian sentiment to the point where it will be possible to change the laws that protect such suppression.
I am hopeful that the widespread awareness, in the rest of the world, that India is no longer a true democracy will shame its leaders into restoring it to its true, democratic self. And this seminar in Delhi is one of the hopeful beginnings of that process. I am so grateful to you, and I am with you in spirit.
Yours, Wendy (5 March 2014)
You might add that although the fate of my books, and all the other books that have come under fire, and will now come under fire, is still uncertain, the unexpected scale and power of the protest against the suppression of books in India is most heart-warming.
I am confident that this movement will ultimately succeed in mobilizing Indian sentiment to the point where it will be possible to change the laws that protect such suppression.
I am hopeful that the widespread awareness, in the rest of the world, that India is no longer a true democracy will shame its leaders into restoring it to its true, democratic self. And this seminar in Delhi is one of the hopeful beginnings of that process. I am so grateful to you, and I am with you in spirit.
Yours, Wendy (5 March 2014)
see also: Text of statement by Prof. Kum Kum Roy addressed to participants at ’Speaking of the Hindus’ seminar and the 2nd AK Ramanujan Lecture in Delhi on 6 March 2014
[These audio recordings in English and Hindi were done as part of South Asia Citizens Web Digital Archive initiative - sacw.net and are made available here for access to wider society beyond ivory towers]
[These audio recordings in English and Hindi were done as part of South Asia Citizens Web Digital Archive initiative - sacw.net and are made available here for access to wider society beyond ivory towers]