Dear friends,

I apologize for having raised the subject. My point was not to enter into another
round of discussion of philo-nazi sentiments in India. I wished only to emphasize the
arbitrariness of the censorship that was imposed on our colleague Wendy Doniger
by a narrow and not representative Hindu faction, when,
as we know, genuine hate-literature circulates quite freely in India.

Matthew Kapstein
Directeur d'études,
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes

Numata Visiting Pro
fessor of Buddhist Studies,
The University of Chicago