'When Westerners make fun of our gods, they're inviting trouble'
February 17, 2014 12:33
'In theory, yes, Hindus are very open. I'm one of them. I've coined the phrase 'open architecture'.
''But I think the Wendy Doniger group is not allowing open architecture. They are closing this architecture.
'They are bringing a point of view in such a heavy-handed way that it tends to dominate and it tends to suppress the alternative points of view. So some kind of counteraction is necessary and using the law is a decent thing to do."
Rajiv Malhotra, one of Wendy Doniger's most vociferous critics, speaks toRediff.com's Arthur J Pais about the prejudices created by American scholars about Hindu gods and Hinduism. Read
''But I think the Wendy Doniger group is not allowing open architecture. They are closing this architecture.
'They are bringing a point of view in such a heavy-handed way that it tends to dominate and it tends to suppress the alternative points of view. So some kind of counteraction is necessary and using the law is a decent thing to do."
Rajiv Malhotra, one of Wendy Doniger's most vociferous critics, speaks toRediff.com's Arthur J Pais about the prejudices created by American scholars about Hindu gods and Hinduism. Read
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