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Hindu Pluralism from its Ancient Flourishing to its Contemporary Challenges - Wendy Doniger Sponsored by Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced Interna...
Through this magisterial volume which she calls "the book of my books" Wendy Doniger, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest and most original scholars o...
"The Politics of Sexuality in Ancient India" : the first in a series of lectures, entitled "The Manipulation of Religion by the Sciences of Politics and Pleasure in Ancient India" delivered by Professor Wendy Doniger, the 2014 Dwight H. Terry Lecturer at Yale University. Series dates: October 7, 9, and 15, 2014. Professor Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School; also in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College, at the University of Chicago.
The Social Network: In Sanskritist Wendy Doniger's own words, in the "steadily worsening, political climate", we discuss why political leaders such as Narend...
Arundhati Roy on BBC Newsday (dated 14. Feb) says this move by Penguin marks a dismaying shift in submitting to the growing atmosphere of intolerance. Her le...
Professor Wendy Doniger, the 2014 Dwight H. Terry Lecturer, delivered a series of lectures entitled, "The Manipulation of Religion by the Sciences of Politics and Pleasure in Ancient India" at Yale University on October 7, 9, and 15, 2014. Professor Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School; also in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College, at the University of Chicago.
A Dean's Forum on “On Hinduism” (Delhi: Aleph Book Company, 2013) by Wendy Doniger, the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions. With responses from colleagues Bruce Lincoln, the Caroline E. Haskell Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, and Steven Collins, Associate Faculty and the Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations.
Followed by Penguin which had withdrawn Wendy Doniger's book 'The Hindus' and Aleph which has also decided not to reprint a second book called 'On Hinduism',...
Since the 6th century BCE, Hinduism has held in creative suspension two movements so different as to merit the title of separate civilisations: one is the dominant strain of ritual, of celebration of life, of family, of children, of sexuality, of food and poetry and sculpture and the worship of many gods; and the other is the strain of philosophy, of renunciation, of the drive to become released from the cycle of rebirth, through denial of the senses, of family life, of children. These two paths lived peacefully side by side, as available options for most Hindus, until the philosophical strain developed into a new form of Hinduism under colonization in the nineteenth century; and now, in a new, Fundamentalist avatar, it has introduced an unprecedented form of repression that threatens freedom of speech in India today.
Author and Historian William Dalrymple is a co-founder of the Jaipur Literary Festival. In an Interview on the "Impact" programme with Lucy Hockings, he spok...
The American scholar, Wendy Doniger says she's very disappointed that all copies of her book on Hinduism will be pulped in India after a legal row. Speaking ...
Justin Vogt, deputy managing editor of Foreign Affairs, sits down with Ananya Vajpeyi, fellow at the Center for Developing Societies in New Delhi. They discu...
Part 1 of the talk by Sandeep Balakrishna in JNU on 05/03/2014 organized by India First JNU. Part 1- 3 minutes Part 2- 18 minutes The Penguin's decision to p...
Guests: Monica Arora (Advocate, Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti) ; Shivam Vij (Writer, Kafila.org) ; Anurag Mathur (Author) ; Aditya Mukherjee (Professor, JNU)...
How does one go about telling the story of the Hindus by including the maverick as well as the mainstream Hindus in the story? The ancient Sanskrit texts, us...
A group of Hindu Youth protested against the publisher Penguin after the book "The Hindus - An Alternative History" was banned. Their demand was to ban publi...
All copies of American scholar Wendy Doniger's "The Hindus: An Alternative History", published by Penguin, will be recalled and destroyed as part of a court-...
Penguin India has agreed to recall and destroy all remaining copies of a book on Hinduism by a leading American academic, according to reports. Wendy Doniger...
Doniger, who teaches at the University of Chicago and has written nearly half a dozen books on Hinduism, including a translation of the Kama Sutra, was writi...
Professor Wendy Doniger PhD, University of Chicago speaks on Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus"
Penguin Books has released a statement about their decision to withdraw and pulp all published copies of Wendy Doniger's book, 'The Hindus, An Alternative Hi...
Under fire from authors and the publishing fraternity for giving up easily in the legal battle over American Indologist Wendy Doniger's book The Hindus: An A...
Dina Nath Batra on Hinduism & Wendy Doniger, banning books, deciding what we read, Ramayana being history, achhe din coming and agreeing to disagree.
Dina Nath Batra on Hinduism & Wendy Doniger, banning books, deciding what we read, Ramayana being history, achhe din coming and agreeing to disagree.
Part 2 of the talk by Sandeep Balakrishna in JNU on 05/03/2014 organized by India First JNU. Part 1- 3 minutes Part 2- 18 minutes The Penguin's decision to p...
Days after Penguin decided to pulp American author Wendy Doniger's book 'The Hindus: An Alternative History' following an out-of-court settlement, at least t...
Two days after Penguin recalled and pulped American scholar Wendy Doniger's book on Hinduism, it finally issues a statement for its actions, blames Indian la...
For slower connections:(11 small videos): http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGQElwzyJxtwsYATkcz1BrpwZBs2G-nhe Or click on time-tags(given below), to jump to the parts - 0:00 - Introduction to Q&A; session in Washington DC(skip this part) 7:17 - Rajiv describes the stages of his own journey over the past 20 years.(mentions Rajat gupta & his efforts for hinduism) 36:05 - Who is Rajiv's guru? 39:18 - What are the four books Rajiv has published thus far? (RM exposes Ramchandra Guha, Pankaj Mishra, Devdutt Patnaik, Wendy Doniger. Also Diana ecke who was behind Subramanian Swamy's expulsion from Harvard) 1:07:18 - Explain what is Neo Hinduism and why our opponents want to propagate it?(speaks on Paul Hacker, Germany, Halph phass, Aghenanand Bharati, Arsala King, Anantanan Rambachan, ROMILA THAPAR, India's Left-wing, mentions Infosys ex-CEO Narayan Murthy's funding of SHELDON POLLOCK, an Anti-Hindu scholar) 1:20:38 - Why is Namaz practice in Islam not 'embodied' in the dharma sense? In this part, Rajiv ji explains the difference between Namaaj and Hindu prayer, this is amazing! He explains difference between cosmology,metaphysics of Hinduism & Abrahamic religions. He also explains why Abrahamics genocided pagans/hindus of Europe, the difference between institutionalized-dictatorial-genocidal warlord-hegemony model(Abrahamic religions) & decentralized-individual freedom-entrepreneur model(Hinduism). It shows why H/Vajpayee was so naive, when he said "Afganistan and india are same, only worship-method is different"), its massive ignorance of our leaders. 1:33:22 - Explain your principle of being non-ignorable. 1:39:00 - What are your issues with funding India related chairs in the West? 1:43:30 - How should we infiltrate Western academia? (mentions Rajat Gupta, TATA, Mahindra & Babus in Ministry of External Affairs) 2:08:39 - What should Hindus do to compete against Church Seminaries producing research? 2:11:27 - How to scale up Rajiv's work to become like a research seminary? RM's Library(i love reading here): http://rajivmalhotra.com/library/articles/ Economic,Social,Scientific history of India(14 Lectures by S.Gurumurthy at IIT): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KMCcCeF3jM&list;=PLyo3HAXSZD3zrXnXJ4Pe3teQrzTPa-Da1&index;=2 (do watch Lecture number 2 in this 14-series, it exposes false propaganda of amir khan, rapes, NGOs & gives a picture of India we are never told in history books & media) ==========================================
LINK to Full Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpozDd5YpH8&
Wendy Doniger is a Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago and one of the most important interpreters of myth. In this Fourth Annu...
Professor Wendy Doniger, the 2014 Dwight H. Terry Lecturer, delivered a series of lectures entitled, "The Manipulation of Religion by the Sciences of Politics and Pleasure in Ancient India" at Yale University on October 7, 9, and 15, 2014. Professor Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School; also in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College, at the University of Chicago.
The Social Network: In a hugely controversial decision, one of the biggest publishers in the country, Penguin Books India, has decided to withdraw a book of renowned sanskritist, academic and writer Wendy Doniger called 'The Hindus - An Alternative History'. This is in response to several petitions filed in court against the book saying it contained factual errors and that several portions were an insult to Hindus and Indians. Watch full show: http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/the-social-network/penguin-in-pulp-friction-who-cares-for-writers/309047
How does the distress expressed by Arjuna relate with the current world. You will find his lamenting thoughts very similar to that of the current world leade...
Left, Right & Centre: RSS frontman Dinanath Batra strikes again, after Wendy Doniger's The Hindus, now another book Megha Kumar's 'Communalism and Sexual Vio...
Last year Penguin Books India pulled a book on Hinduism by the scholar Wendy Doniger from shelves ...
Business Day 2015-04-10Book: BEDTIME STORY: A PLAY. Book: BLACK TULIP: A SCREENPLAY. Author: ... Or the fate of Wendy Doniger's book on the Hindus?
DNA India 2015-03-29... says Wendy Doniger with a laugh, pointing to the very loose wording of the dreaded Section 295 (A).
The Independent 2015-03-26Wendy Doniger on non-Hindus writing about Hinduism Islamophobic futurism in fiction Fifty years ...
Minds 2015-03-22Wendy Doniger, author of 'The Hindus: ... Hindu Sena activists protesting against Doniger's book during ...
The Times of India 2015-03-15Wendy Doniger’s book on Hinduism was not banned — the publisher, Penguin, just withdrew it and decided to pulp it ... Keywords:
The Hindu 2015-03-14An Alternative History," a book by American academic Wendy Doniger, after a local advocacy group ...
CNN 2015-03-13... India pulled from shelves and destroyed all copies of American historian Wendy Doniger's The Hindus:
South China Morning Post 2015-03-13... pulled from shelves and destroyed all copies of American historian Wendy Doniger's "The Hindus:
Seattle Post 2015-03-13... pulled from shelves and destroyed all copies of American historian Wendy Doniger's "The Hindus:
Fox News 2015-03-13It took a Michael Wood to show us "The Story of India" or a Wendy Doniger to show us a different ...
The Hindu 2015-03-05We take a look at some other recent books that faced similar opposition. Madhorubhagan. Author: ... Sahara: ... Wendy Doniger Year:
The Times of India 2015-03-01Mr ... He was instrumental in stalling the release of American scholar Wendy Doniger’s book, The Hindus: ... C ... Keywords:
The Hindu 2015-02-27Wendy Doniger (O'Flaherty) (born November 20, 1940) is an American Indologist and Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School, the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the Committee on Social Thought. She has taught at the University of Chicago since 1978.
Much of her work is focused on translating, interpreting and comparing elements of Hindu mythology through modern contexts of gender, sexuality and identity. She describes herself as "a Sanskritist, indeed a recovering Orientalist" and "an old-fashioned philologist".
Doniger was born in New York City to immigrant non-observant Jewish parents, and raised in Great Neck NY, where her father, Lester L Doniger (1909–1971), ran a publishing business. While in high school, she studied dance under George Balanchine and Martha Graham. She graduated summa cum laude in Sanskrit and Indian Studies from Radcliffe College in 1962, and received her M.A. from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in June 1963. She then studied in India in 1963–1964 with a 12-month Junior Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies. She gained her first Ph.D. from Harvard University in June 1968, with a dissertation on 'Asceticism and Sexuality in the Mythology of Siva,' supervised by Daniel H. H. Ingalls, Sr.. She obtained her second, a D. Phil. in Oriental Studies from Oxford University, in February 1973, with a dissertation on ‘The Origins of Heresy in Hindu Mythology,’ supervised by R.C.Zaehner. She has since been awarded six honorary doctorates.