"Bagger Vance" & Doniger on the Gita

[Valerie J Roebuck]

Yes, if it's an introduction aimed at students:  no, if it's a public
lecture aimed at an audience with previous knowledge of the subject.  Then
it's perfectly proper (and sometimes desirable) to be provocative.

Valerie J Roebuck
Manchester, UK

Bhadraiah Mallampalli writes:

>A professor has to give a
>complete view, and state one's own views at the end of the class. It is a
>role conflict (confusion about svadharma) between being an activist and a
>professor.