Sememe: ayana; sun and property

[Aditya, The Hindu Skeptic]

On Thu, 8 Jun 1995, Vidyasankar Sundaresan wrote:
> Dominik seems to have used "ignorant outsider" to refer to himself, rather
> than Kalyanaraman. 
This has been drawn to my attention from some one else too. I am sorry 
that I misunderstood him but due to his sentence construction it could be 
construed in either way and as a result I did over-react. When I read 
outsider, I assumed an outsider to this list or the discipline of 
indology, since I am also an outsider in that sense by not being a
professional indologist or a tenured professor.

> I also think it is neither polite nor reasonable to ask Westerners for their
> motives in studying things Indian. What are my motives for studying 
> chem engg in a Western university, inspite of my own Indian heritage? People
> have their own reasons for what they do in life, and it is somewhat unfair
> to view today's researchers as being similar to the missionaries of a century
> ago. 
It surely is reasonable in the same sense that Kalyanramans was accused 
of being a hindutva motivated scholar as you mention in the rest of your 
note.
Anyway, I have not yet read Kalyanraman's note and would appreciate to 
see it if some one has saved it and would forward it to me.