[INDOLOGY] A regressive face of Indology at the World Sanskrit Conference

[Nagaraj Paturi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p5QcHyGSrc&feature=youtu.be

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 5:45 PM, Audrey Truschke via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Friends and Colleagues,
>
> This article
> <https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/how-to-move-a-mountain/article24682600.ece>,
> by Professor Vajpeyi, is a must-read. For many on this list, it will not be
> news that Indology has entrenched problems with sexism and elitism; many in
> our discipline are also soft on Hindutva. For others, some or all of these
> things may be surprising.
>
> I encourage everyone to read with an open mind, rather than with a posture
> of umbrage and denial that has become all-too-common these days. As
> Professor Vajpeyi describes, the reception of the public forum at the 17th
> World Sanskrit Conference in Vancouver was an appalling display of
> unprofessionalism, misogyny, and class privilege, a "regressive face of
> Indology." My friends - We need to ask ourselves some tough questions about
> what sorts of prejudices and behaviours we are tolerating and harboring in
> our corner of the scholarly world. We tend to be quite good at exercising a
> critical gaze when it comes to mimamsa, kavya, and so forth. I hope we can
> do the same with ourselves.
>
> All the Best,
>
> Audrey
>
> Audrey Truschke
> Assistant Professor
> Department of History
> Rutgers University-Newark
>
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-- 
Nagaraj Paturi

Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.


BoS, MIT School of Vedic Sciences, Pune, Maharashtra

BoS, Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth, Veliyanad, Kerala

Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies

FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education,

(Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA )


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