Wendy Doniger

Differentiating between the two dissent: App-wapsi is every bit as legit as award-wapsi

If anything, what the uninstalling of Snapdeal app after Aamir Khan's controversial remarks tell us is that Indian consumers are an informed lot who are ready to exercise their choice (key word in a democracy) and cannot be taken for granted.

I was misquoted on Gandhi and Partition, says Wendy Doniger

Acclaimed American Indologist Wendy Doniger claims she was misquoted on her remarks about Mahatma Gandhi and the 1947 partition of India.

Wendy Doniger all over again: Hindutva forces targeting scholar MM Basheer is plain wrong

The manner in which a Ramayana scholar MM Basheer from Kerala was targeted for writing a series on Ramayana reflected an intolerant mindset of the fringe.

Rajiv Malhotra plagiarism row: It's about cultural intimidation, not freedom of speech

It’s no secret there are plenty of those derided as “aadarsh liberals” who are not unhappy about Rajiv Malhotra’s latest tribulations.

Free speech for plagiarists: Writer Rajiv Malhotra's supporters reveal hypocrisy of bhakts

Controversial writer Rajiv Malhotra has succeeded where others failed. He has reminded the Indian right wing of the virtues of free speech. Courtesy Malhotra, the book-burning cabals and poster-tearing hooligans of India are rallying around the very right whose value they once questioned. Writer-activist Madhu Kishwar is currently spearheading a campaign against, well, another campaign demanding that Malhotra's books be pulped for allegedly plagiarising the work of several western scholars.

Wendy's revenge: Plagiarism charge against Rajiv Malhotra is a red herring

Accusations of plagiarism against Indian American author Rajiv Malhotra are a smoke-screen for a generalised attack on Hindu intellectuals.

Plagiarism charge: Why Rajiv Malhotra is on the gunsights of western Indologists

Rajiv Malhotra, a Hindu disapora intellectual who has tried to reverse the gaze from east to west and take on American academicians on their portrayal of Indic culture and Hinduism, is the target of an attack using "plagiarism" charges as the weapon

The Rajiv Malhotra debate: Sorry, plagiarism is not the vice of only those we dislike

By that same token, arguments about plagiarism leveled at Rajiv Malhotra should be treated as just that – allegations of plagiarism.

Politics by legal means: Sanskrit pressure group is the new Dinanath Batra in town

We have a new Dinanath Batra in town: The Sanskrit Shikshak Sangh —a group of teachers who got the government to ban German as third language in KVs.

Dr. Subramanian Swamy, burning books won't fix problems with our history texts

When Dr. Subramanian Swamy says books by Nehruvian historians should be burned he forgets that burning and banning books can never be the answer. You have to attack not people but their intellectual claims and you do that by argument and scholarship not a matchstick.