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Sheldon Pollock has written a scare mongering piece here: http://www.museindia.com/focuscontent.asp?issid=43&id=3330 The following is a humble attempt to rebut the article: "“India is confronting a calamitous endangerment of its classic knowledge, and India today may have reached the point the rest of the world will reach tomorrow. This form of knowledge, under the sign of a critical classicism, must be recovered and strengthened not for the mere satisfaction of those outside of India who cultivate the study of its past but for the good of the people of India themselves.”    The article starts with Sheldon Pollock (SP) saying that what he says in the article is not backed by statistics but out of personal experience and anecdotes.    The above said, let us analyze the alarm! 1. "Calamitous endangerment of its classic knowledge." : According to SP, classic knowledge is knowledge "about" classics and not knowledge of the classics. Knowl...

Mr. Sampadaka at it again. He is a beacon of negativity in an otherwise positive kannaDa blogosphere. Our exercise of writing periodic rebuttals to him will continue until he realizes his follies and becomes positive. In his latest tirade against Baba Ramdev: http://sampadakeeya.blogspot.com/2011/06/blog-post_7885.html He does what he has become known for: unabashed negativity with insinuations, sanctimonious pontification etc. thrown in in good measure. Let us try to understand the (mis)articulations of a sick mind. "ಭ್ರಷ್ಟಾಚಾರ ವಿರೋಧಿಸುವುದು ಈಗೀಗ ಒಂದು ಫ್ಯಾಷನ್. ಭ್ರಷ್ಟಾಚಾರ ವಿರೋಧಿ ಹೋರಾಟಗಳನ್ನು ಬೆಂಬಲಿಸುವವರ ಪೈಕಿ ಸಾಕಷ್ಟು ಮಂದಿಗೆ ತಮ್ಮ ಕಳಂಕಗಳನ್ನು ತೊಳೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ಆತುರ. ಅಣ್ಣಾ ಹಜಾರೆ ಹೋರಾಟಕ್ಕೆ ವ್ಯಕ್ತವಾದ ಸಾರ್ವತ್ರಿಕ ಬೆಂಬಲವನ್ನು ಗಮನಿಸಿದ ಮೇಲೆ ಇಂಥದ್ದೇ ಬೆಂಬಲದ ನಿರೀಕ್ಷೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ರಾಮದೇವ ಉಪವಾಸಕ್ಕೆ ಕೂರುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ." Wow!!! insinuation right at the beginning. Right at the second paragraph gives an impression as though the person whom he is going to talk about (Baba Ramdev) is a corrupt person who has just joi...

http://sampadakeeya.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-post_5493.html Poor Sampadaka, his attacks seem to be directed against Hindu Icons alone. I request him to write about the recent canonization of Sister Alphonsa by the Vatican attributing to her "miracles". The article shows his utter ignorance of samskR^itam. Take for instance: "ಅಧ್ಯಾತ್ಮ ಅನ್ನುವುದು ಸಂಯುಕ್ತ ಪದ. ಅಧಿ+ಆತ್ಮ ಅಧ್ಯಾತ್ಮವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಅಧಿ ಎಂಬ ಪದಕ್ಕೆ ಶ್ರೇಷ್ಠವಾದ, ಉನ್ನತವಾದ ಎಂಬ ಅರ್ಥಗಳಿವೆ." according to Mr. Sampadaka adhi + Atma = shreShTha AtmA. Actually the pada is adhyAtma (not adhyAtmA, the last "a" is a hrasva). adhyAtma is that stream of knowledge which deals with oneself, not the knowledge of "great souls" as the ignorant author of Sampadakeeya claims. This being Mr. Sampadaka's knowledge level, one can rest one's case. But has to continue because there are many more bogus claims and sickening personal attacks which shouldn't go uncontested for truth's sake. "ಆತ್ಮ ಶ್ರೇಷ್ಠವ...

Hindus all over the world should raise their voice against violence perpetrated against hindu minorities in Pakistan. http://www.voxpublica.org/2010/03/pakistan_a_hindu_teenager_is_t.html

The machinations of the Congress government and its capitulation to minorityism is sending the country down a ruinous path. http://www.dailypioneer.com/245187/Muslim-quota-set-to-open-Pandora%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%84%A2s-box.html

The following site has illuminating discussions about adhyAtma by shrii shrii rAmasukhadAsa mahArAja. http://satcharcha.blogspot.com/

give the yankees the multi billion dollar nuclear deal and they will set the agenda for your nuclear / missile policy too!!!: "There is no plan for going on for Agni-6 in near future. Because missiles over 5,000 km range fall under the category of intercontinental ballistic missiles, of which we do not feel any requirement yet," http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20100328/812/tnl-india-s-n-capable-agni-i-missile-mak.html