Book Review: An Update on AIT (Part 1)

[Swantham]

Dear Dr.Thompson,
Thank you for saying what I have been thinking to say.Let me repeat:
I for one am  eager to advance reseach in my field. How much time should I
> waste on this sort of uninformed ethnocentric rant?
>
> Rajaram, put some facts on the table. Then let us debate them.
Unfortunately what is going on in the name of research in our Universities
mostly is such junk.
With regards
K.Maheswaran Nair
Professor
Department of Sanskrit
University of Kerala
Trivandrum
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> From: George Thompson <GthomGt at CS.COM>
> To: INDOLOGY at LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Book Review: An Update on AIT (Part 1)
> Date: Monday, August 30, 1999 9:31 AM
>
> It seems to me that if Rajaram wants us to take him seriously, he should
> start, finally, now that the rest of us are preparing for the next
> milllennnium, to make his entry into the twentieth century.  Why does he
keep
> on harping on an out of date scholar like poor Max Mueller.? Or even
older
> Sir Wm. Jones?  How long will it take Rajaram to enter the twentieth
century?
> How long is it polite for the rest of us to wait for him to catch up with
the
>  rest of us? The repetition in these arguments is nothing if not tedious.
We
> keep on rebuting the silly arguments that he poses. Hoiw much longer must
we
> endure the waste of time involved in restuing his banalities over and
over
> and over again? And what about  the accompanying insults? How long shall
we
> bite our tongues while this sort of charlatan persaudes all of India that
it
> is Atlantis all over again?
>
> I for one am eager to advance reseach in my field. How much time should I
> waste on this sort of uninformed ethnocentric rant?
>
> Rajaram, put some facts on the table. Then let us debate them.
>
> How can this review be called an 'update' when it says nothing,
absolutely
> nothing, about what has gone on  in the AIT debate over the past hundred
> years?
>
> Let the list see what kind of opponent stands before us.
>
> George Thompson