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Indian Epics Archive
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The Rape of Our Epics: Conclusion
Posted on January 21, 2013 | 124 CommentsRead the previous parts: 1, 2, 3, and 4. Here are my tweets that started it all: 1. Nilanjana Roy’s lesbian fantasies about Shurpanakha: http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/nilanjana-s-roywoman-alone-inforest/498048/ …. Nothing new. She’s the latest fantasizing kid on the block. 2. A woman who lusts after another woman’s husband... -
The Rape of Our Epics: Part 4
Posted on January 18, 2013 | 33 CommentsRead the previous parts: 1, 2, and 3. So where were we? Popular discussion? Niyoga? No…well, yes, we were at the three princesses: Amba, Ambika and Ambalika. Pardon my confusion. I mean, confusion happens when Nilanjana Roy mixes up timelines. Imagine my plight: she begins... -
The Rape of Our Epics: Part 3
Posted on January 16, 2013 | 42 CommentsRead Parts 1 and 2. After trying to force-fit Draupadi into the feminist mould, Nilanjana Roy sets her sights on Amba, Ambika and Ambalika in yet another extremely revealing paragraph. Amba is, again, silenced in popular discussion, and yet her story remains both remarkable and... -
The Rape of Our Epics: Part 2
Posted on January 14, 2013 | 33 CommentsIs Draupadi Rarely Referenced? After failing to show how Sita’s abduction by Ravana and her abandonment by Rama qualify as “rape” and/or “sexual assault,” Nilanjana Roy turns to Draupadi whom she characterizes as follows: Draupadi’s story is rarely referenced, though it is powerfully told in... -
The Rape of Our Epics: Part 1
Posted on January 14, 2013 | 49 CommentsIntroduction Nilanjana Roy’s Business Standard piece on Jan 08, 2013 entitled A woman alone in the forest is just the latest in what has become a much-lauded fad. A fad whose staple diet consists of a distorted reading of Indian epics, misinterpretations aplenty, sleights of... -
In Which Salil Disrobes Several Draupadis
Posted on July 19, 2012 | 63 CommentsI know, I know. The title of this post will only rile up Salil Tripathi further because he’s big on things like “tone,” and “civility,” which he cites are the reasons he doesn’t engage with me. Isn’t that a jolly way to wriggle out of... -
Wendy Doniger is a Syndrome
Posted on November 25, 2009 | 125 CommentsIntroduction Wendy Doniger has bestowed a rather flippant interview in Outlook India on the eve of the release of her new book, The Hindus: An Alternative History. The title is sufficiently pompous, entirely faithful to Wendy Doniger’s career as an Indologist. Aditi Banerjee responded with...