Who is Dinanath Batra?

February 12, 2014 10:41

Who is Dinanath Batra, who has succeeded in getting Penguin to pulp its book, scholar Wendy Doniger's Hindus: An Alternative History?

Shougat Dasgupta meets him to describe him and his work, in the Mint: Batra, a mild, affable man, tall and still upright, maintaining the posture of the school headmaster he once was, does not seem unhinged by rage now. But he is implacable in his belief that Doniger's book is malevolent, has no place being read or discussed in India. In his petition to the court, The Hindus is described as "shallow, distorted...a haphazard presentation riddled with heresies and factual inaccuracies'.

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