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

[Walter Slaje]

 I am sorry, but I didn't quite get the message. The cause for making the
complaint was the unacademic, disrespectful and casteist behaviour against
female participants in the latest WSC.The video shows if anything that
Indian women can be trained in memorizing Vedic couplets and in reciting
them in a synchronized manner. It resembles a school performance which has
nothing to do with serious Sanskrit research and still less with the
offensive demeanour of the disputants and the blind eye WSC officials have
turned to it as described in previous posts.
In this context I am really wondering what the purpose of sending this
puzzling link might be?

WS

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Am Mi., 15. Aug. 2018 um 04:43 Uhr schrieb Nagaraj Paturi via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info>:

> 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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