Sir — This refers to the controversy over Wendy Doniger’s book, The Hindus: An Alternative History. Of late, the Western writers’ aim is to diminish various manifestations of god, as worshipped by the Hindus, into laughable mythical caricatures. They assail the sanctity of the Bhagvad Gita as a book that is nothing more than a violent call to arms; they assault the morality of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Swami Vivekananda, two of the country’s greatest spiritual saints.
Such profanities are apparently part of their hidden agenda to systematically debase the very foundations of Sanatan dharma. Their goal appears to be for the academia, and eventually the mainstream society, to project Hindus as a people worshiping cartoon-like gods, adhering to an irrational scripture, and paying homage to despicable saints.