Comments on: A book critics award for Wendy Doniger?

By: Lekhni

Lekhni — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:43:12 +0000

To be considered history, we need dates. We have reasonable evidence that Prophet Muhammad lived during the 6th century. We have no idea (or evidence or references) as to when the events of the Ramayana happened.

By: ramji

ramji — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:13:14 +0000

one of the reasons why hinduism is left outof true discussions is because so called”scholars” arrogantly say that our texts are “mythology”,well im sorry to report this but the purana’s ect. are NOT,i repeat,NOT mythology anymore than the bible or the koran.this anti-hindu agendra,or actually,nastik agenda dedicated to KILLING hinduism cannot be allowed to come to fruitition.we must recognize our shastras in the samle light that our muslims brother on this site recognizes the historical acuracy of the night journey where Mahamad journeyed to the heavens via Al Buraq.if muslims have the balls to admit this is historical,why dont hindu “scholars” and other’s have the balls to admit the battle of kurushetra,vijaya and jaya’s incarnating as raavan ect. due to the curse from sanakadika?? if you really are a hindu,then you shouldnt have any problem at all believein in the historical accuracy of ALL purana’s,not just gita ect. in the same way that muslims view the koran as historically accurate.i ask not only my fellow hindus,but muslims as well to fight this bogus scholar’s like doniger theologically by defending the purana’s and Koran as historically 100% accurate period!!!

By: irainesan

irainesan — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:22:43 +0000

salmon, you are a man of few words. Let the Supreme God be witness between you and me and decide on the issue. No culture that has any decency can allow vilification, mockery and insult. Read more and May God guide to the right path. It is far below my dignity to take up an issue with you on the question of who is a bigger idiot.

By: irainesan

irainesan — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:31:37 +0000

Abhi: Salman Rushdie is a hypocrite and a lier, he claims he has written a fiction. Will you accept if I write a fiction using your real name Abhi, your parents real names, your sisters real names, your cousins real names and I say Abhi’s family runs a brothel and I go on writing filth, lies, pornography on a decent and cultured person like you and my interntion was to insult and mock you and your family out of jealous, greed for money or to show my vengence on your family, that is what Salamn the manufiq did and he called it fiction to make the Muslim world believe him and thus save his head, in a brothel in salmans book the names of the prostitutes used are the real names of the wives of the Prophet whom Muslims consider as their mothers.

By: Salmon Birdie

Salmon Birdie — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:10:41 +0000

Irainesan = IGNORANT IDIOT

By: Abhi

Abhi — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:57:58 +0000

It’s not the same at all. Salman Rushdie wrote FICTION. He never made claims that Satanic verses covered te true history of Islam.

Doniger & co. are saying the opposite.

By: irainesan

irainesan — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:03:47 +0000

I fully comprehend the feelings of my Hindu brothers, but the same brothers were rejoicing when Salman Rushdie was discrediting, ridiculing, mocking, fabricating stories, vilifying and insulting the tender feelings of 1500 million Muslims by his filthy and factually and historically erroneous book and the Hindu Fundamentalist parties such as Rashtra Sevak Sang and Bharatiya Janata Party secretly produced Hindi Translation of Salman Rushdie’s book in India even though India had banned the book. No one has any right to insult any religion Hinduism or Islam for that matter. I would agree with many views expressed by Dr. Doniger but still I feel that the book should not be allowed in India
because it is an insult to Sanatana Dharma of Hinduism, the philosophy that my forefathers followed before converting to monotheistic Islam in India. After all my ancestors were Hindus too. Change in ideology does not make me not to love my nation India

By: Ramesh

Ramesh — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:58:07 +0000

A good link to look at is Dwaraka : A lost city of Krishna The Mahabharata Vedas Bhagavad Gita are very real. The Bhagavad Gita as example dates to 3000 Bc (http://www.bhagavad-gita.org/Gita/intro.html)

By: Incognito

Incognito — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:38:29 +0000

>>>”Oh, and then there is her obsession with dogs and their portrayal in Sanskrit texts, which I can only find amusing and typically Western.”

Have you read the review by Dr Shrinivas Tilak ?- http://sookta-sumana.blogspot.com/2010/02/doniger-does-doggie_05.html