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        ''Scholarly'' works produced by specially hired scholars under the overall feaudal tutelage and pecuniary stranglehold of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and Religion in South Asia (RISA) are being used by American Christian groups to describe Hinduism as a 'dirty dignity destroying religion' and as a 'pig-pen from the east'. Let me give some examples to illustrate this point. American students are taught that Shiva Temples are 'notorious for ritual rape and murder'. How can we understand the reasonableness, civilizational aspect apart, of the American School System (funded by a US Federal Grant to promote multiculturalism in America) which has a prescribed textbook which accuses Lord Rama of causing the oppression of Indian minorities and women? Parents of many Indian school and college students in USA have for very valid reasons started challenging the letter, tone and spirit of the educational materials which are having a detrimental impact on the sensitive, innocent and impressionable minds of the youth.

        This book completely exposes the dubiously self-proclaiming academic credentials of Wendy Doniger, the Mircea Eliade Professor of History and Religion at the University of Chicago. She is one of the most influential persons in the study of religion. Largely on account of Rajiv Malhotra's classic essay RISA LILA-1; Wendy's Child Syndrome, published in 2002, Wendy Doniger and other scholars have come under the scanner of scrutiny of Hindus in North America—for their nefarious practice of dredging-for-dirt and resorting to the use of disheveled, questionable approaches to translations and interpretations of traditional Hindu texts in Sanskrit and other Indian languages. In the field of studies relating to India and Hindu Religion, Wendy Doniger functions as a feaudal landlord, successfully placing her erstwhile students in academic jobs and chairs and they in turn carry forward the torch of her theories and principles regarding Hinduism. She has taken care to see that all her former students are carefully planted throughout the field of Hinduism studies and thus serving as an impregnable fort of fascist intellectual influence. Wendy Doniger is notorious for her vulgar, racy and bawdi interpretations of Hindu texts. One of the websites refers to her in these words: “Professor Wendy Doniger is known for being rude, crude and very lewd in the hallowed portals of Sanskrit Academics. All her special works have revolved around the subject of sex in Sanskrit texts”.

        In RISA LILA-1 Rajiv Malhotra clearly brought out the fact that there was not a single comprehensive critical evaluation of Wendy Doniger's work, despite the fact that powerful organisations like the American Academy of Religion (AAR), RISA, several academic institutions, TV Channels and powerful newspapers like New York Times, acted together in an orchestrated manner to project her work as one of lasting global significance. The intellectual approach of Wendy Doniger and her distinguished students acting in concert for the total extinguishment of all things Hindu and Indian, can only be compared with President Bush's theory of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) which he invoked against Iraq.

        Wendy Doniger's translations of Hindu texts are widely available in Paperback Publications and serve to inform the layperson's image of Hinduism. Prof Michael Witzel of Harvard University pointed out that Wendy Doniger's knowledge of Vedic Sanskrit was severely flawed. Prof. Witzel wrote: “Wendy Doniger' rendering of even the first two paadas of the Rig Veda is more of a translation”, and her style “is rather a stream of unconnected George Bush- like anacoluthas”. He considered Doniger Wendy's scholarship as lazy and not of the standard required by Harvard University. He expressed the reasonable doubt as to whether Doniger Wendy's translations of Hindu texts would have been accepted in the Harvard Oriental Series rather than in Penguin Books. When Prof Witzel was publicly challenged to prove his claim, he published examples of Wendy Doniger's 'Sanskrit mistranslations' on the web. Taking due note of Wendy Doniger's Cosmic and Global stature, Rajiv Malhotra concluded with acute mathematical precision: “Prof Michael Witzel's assessment of Wendy Doniger seemed as audacious as saying that the Pope was not a good Catholic”. In the light of Prof Witzel's assessment of Wendy Doniger's Sanskrit, I am only reminded of the following comic poem about a linguistic scholar:

        “A major in language, wasn't she,

        Who attended a school in Chicago?

        So she'd master the tongue,

        But she said with head strung and not hung,

        'I'm afraid that the tongue mastered me.'

        Over the years, Wendy Doniger has endeavored to build up her academic 'franchise'. Deluding herself with notions of her own immortality (like Fuhrer of the Third Reich), she is reported to have imperiously asserted in 2000: “My former students have given me a sort of immortality, because they have provided me with a Parampara (a spiritual lineage) more enduring than my own books, let alone flesh”. Keeping this 'cosmic form' (Vishwa Roopa!!) dimension in view, Rajiv Malhotra has titled his article as “Wendy's Children”. Wendy Doniger and her children apply the principles of psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) to the study of all aspects and forms of Hindu religion. Freudian speculation about Hindu God Ganesha, having an Oedipil Complex, has found its way into American Museums as “FACT”. At the famous Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, we have some of the finest pieces of Asian Art. Each art object has an explanation text board next to it. These explanations are avidly read by all the students who go on a study tour to this Museum of Art. Here there is a large 11th century Ganesha Carving and there is a write-up below it. I am quoting some excerpts from it: “Ganesha, is a son of the great God Shiva, and many of his abilities are comic or absurd extensions of the lofty dichotomies of his father… Ganesha's potbelly and his childlike love for sweets mock Shiva's practice of austerities, and his limp trunk will forever be a poor match for Shiva's erect phallus”.

        I would like to give a pointed rejoinder to the organized and culturally deranged pornographic efforts of Wendy Doniger and others of her ilk in the words of Shri Aurobindo (1872-1950) who observed as follows: “I find it difficult to take Psychoanalysis seriously. As a science it is still in its infancy—inconsiderate, awkward and rudimentary at one and the same time…. One cannot discover the meaning of the lotus by analysing the secrets of the mud in which it grows”.

        Karl Marx (1818-1883) came out with his revolutionary Theory of Evolution of Society. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) gave his revolutionary Theories of the Mind and Psychoanalysis. Max Weber (1864-1920) gave his classic Theory of Organisations. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) came out with his Theory of the Universe. In my view Rajiv Malhotra has not come out with his brilliant model of “WENDY'S CHILD SYNDROME” (WCS) just in jest. He has done it to make his valid point in a forceful and provocative way—with the articulation of the WCS theory, more and more scholars from Asia in general and India in particular will come forward to turn the tables of Psychoanalysis around and apply them with greater paganish vigour (perhaps if not with Wendy's academic acumen!!) to the cultural and social phenomenon of Wendy Doniger and her tribe of anti-Hindu scholars. To quote the words of Rajiv Malhotra in this context: ''To fully appreciate the academic portrayals of Hinduism, one must study Wendy Doniger's influence (perhaps not just intellectual but also physical and sexual—these suggestive words within brackets wholly mine!!)playing out through her followers' subconscious conditioning. Because Wendy wields far grate power in western academe than does KALI, Wendy's child is far more important to deconstruct than Kali's Child''. Thus through this one short paragraph Rajiv Malhotra, to use the metaphor of Cricket, has bowled an unplayable bouncer against not only Wendy but also against Jeffrey Kripal, the much acclaimed author of the book, Kali's child and Sarah Caldwell.

        In my review of this book, I have already quoted Mark Twain and Will Durant. Today I would like to quote Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), American Philosopher, transcendentalist and writer. It was Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) who aroused in him a true enthusiasm for India. In the 1840s and 1850s Thoreau's discovered India. He mastered the Rig Veda Samhita, and Mandukya and other Upanishads, the Puranas, the Institutes of Manu, the Bhagavad Gita and the Bhagvata Purana etc.

        In his famous journal written on the banks of Walden Pond, Thoreau often alluded to water— the metaphor is clear—the Bhagawad Gita's wisdom teachings are the purifier of the mind: 'By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent.' About Bhagawad Gita, he said: 'In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophies of the Bhagavat Gita, since whose composition years of the Gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial...” I wonder what Thoreau would have said of the writings of Wendy Doniger and others of her tribe today.

        May I request Wendy Doniger to carefully select a scapegoat as a research scholar to 'suitably deconstruct' Thoreau as part of an academic project of the University of Chicago and help him / her to get a sumptuous grant from the AAR and RISA for undertaking such a study of everlasting significance which will not only mock at Hindu Gods / Goddesses but also at TIME itself?