It is
no surprise then that the Wellwishers
of the Ashram Trust, knowing too well which side of the bread is buttered, have
no qualms about keeping quiet when Sri Aurobindo himself is derated, but take
up cudgels and loudspeakers on behalf of the Trustees. The guidepost for them is that those who
question the wrong actions of the Trust are necessarily heretics and their
actions are blasphemous. However, on their part, they are prone to take the
easy path of “we see no wrong, we hear no wrong, we speak no wrong” on the
actions of the Trust. They expect that wrongs against the Divine and sadhaks be
not addressed at all by chanting the rhetoric, “the Trustees can do nothing
wrong and people should accept everything that they do with the non-questioning
maxim of conduct that “thou shalt not think or reason or question the Trustees
even if they are wrong.” Their fundamental fallacy owes to the misplaced
identification of the administrative outfit of the Ashram Trust with the Ashram
itself. [extract – read full article
below]
25 Apr 2015
19 Apr 2015
Comment by an Ashram inmate who has been deeply pained by the Heehs Affair
The problem is not so
much with the likes of Heehs and Doniger. Born in an alien culture, fed by the
staple diet of Freudianism or else serving the cause of a militant Church, they
are true to their dharma not caring about what the world may say about them.
But what about us Indians who neither read nor think for themselves? Look at what
happened with the Heehs issue.
17 Apr 2015
“The Hindus: An Alternative History” by Wendy Doniger ― Review by Ali Sheikh
There you have it.
Weird Hindu doomsdays. Sex-crazed kings. Cruel gods. Men marrying dogs.
Phalluses everywhere—some erect and some flaccid. Ladies and gentlemen, we
finally have an alternative history of Hinduism. And yes, left uncontested, in
all likelihood these are the “insights” a whole new generation of students and
researchers might learn, internalize, and cite in future scholarly works. [Extract – read full review below]
12 Apr 2015
Comment on Jayantilal Parekh's article on Ashram – by Shiva
On 14th March the League of Lost Logicians
a.k.a. Well Wishers of Sri Aurobindo
Ashram reproduced “The Sri Aurobindo Ashram and its Administration”, an
article published in Mother India in
June 2001, which was “explicitly written in the backdrop of adversely critical
articles that were being planted by anti-Ashram elements in the various
newspapers and journals in order to malign the Ashram”, by which it means the
Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust (SAAT) of the day. The article, more rightly a
brochure, was undoubtedly compiled-written by the self-appointed ‘archivist-scholars’
of the Archives & Research Department set up by Jayantilal Parekh and since
it was based on his viewpoint, it was hung round his neck.
7 Apr 2015
A Defence of Hinduism – by Amal Kiran
[Article approved by Sri Aurobindo and first
published in Mother India on May 27,
1950]
Recently a well-known leader of the scheduled
classes, announced his desire to embrace Buddhism because of the lot of the “untouchables”
in Hindu society - a lot which seemed to him a pointer to a lack in Hinduism of
the sense of human brotherhood. He also declared that if Hinduism bore the
caste system for several centuries it had failed “to yield anything substantive”.
According to him, Buddhism stands in striking contrast to this religion.
What
shall we say to these highly “allergic” criticisms?
2 Apr 2015
It is time to speak up against the Hinduphobia of foreign writers: Vamsee Juluri
March 29, 2015, 6:00 am IST Narayani
Ganesh in Treasure Hunt | India
| Times of India
Vamsee
Juluri, professor of media studies at the University of San
Francisco, speaks up for the anonymous Hindu who, he says, was silent all those
years of colonial rule only to be criticized as an ‘oppressor’
post-Independence. His new book ‘Rearming Hinduism’ seeks to restore to the
millennia-old faith its intellectual heritage by reintroducing Hinduism to
Hindus. Juluri tells Narayani Ganesh that foreign ‘experts’ have only
contributed to the misconceptions
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