Three Hundred Ramayanas and a Discussion

From a discussion in Facebook with a friend.

Anup Pandey

Why all SICkular and ***hole born in Hindu community only ? Here is anothttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifher one ..

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/article2550965.ece?homepage=true

The Hindu : Cities / Delhi : Ramayana row: DU Council ignored opinion of three experts
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Delhi University's Academic Council seems to have relied on the opinion of one expert, conveniently ignoring the collective opinion of the remaining three, in its controversial decision to drop A. K. Ramanujan's celebrated essay on the Ramayana from its history syllabus.
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Anup Pandey http://anilbali49.sulekha.com/blog/post/2009/03/three-hundred-ramayanas-legal-notice-to-oxford-university.htm


Vidyasakaran Dhanapathi
Just a sample...

From your second link by anilbali49... (nothing edited/removed/read in between lines)
//It gave an example of Dog’s Urine to comment on Holy Ramayana. It say’s “a dog came that way and pissed into his mouth” and on return from Ram Lila he tells his wife about Ramayana that it was “Terrible. It was so salty”. The article published by Oxford clarifies that “what happens when you really listen to a story, especially to Ramayana”. In another place the writer has compared Holy Ramayan with ‘Aristotle’s Jack Knife’ of a carpenter. //

Trust me. I have listened to this story in 1991-92 in my school days. Nothing detrimental about Ramayana here. It's about someone who sleeps in the Ramayana recital.

Anilbali has edited and pasted from the original, which is 'Ever since, he has been respected in the village as a wise elder, and he has also behaved like one. That's what happens when you really listen to a story, especially to the Ramayana'. Now, read again the edited part from Anilbali. He doesn't want you to know the whole passage. Why? He wants to turn you against the passage.

Jack Knife... During my childhood itself, I have heard the above story and the story of 'Sita as Ravanan's daughter' and few more as well. I have even read that Krishna of Brindavan and Krishna of Dwaraka and Krishna of Gita 'might' all be different people. We even have more than one researchers concluding that the Lanka mentioned in Ramayana is not today's Srilanka but it is a place near Vindhyan Hills. Now, what to say of the hundred small hills in south india said to be the stones fallen from Hanuman's hand, and the other 'tourist' places in sri lanka?
Now, what's wrong in bringing up 'Jack knife' as in 'is it like Aristotle's jack knife'? If one doesn't ask that question, what kind of researcher he is? If one doesn't ponder over that question, what kind of 'student' he is?

These Hindutvavadi's are trying to terrorize the so called Hindus into a phobia by overreacting and propagandizing. I wish not many fall prey to that.
People in DU Academic Council don't deserve the power they have. They are just the incapable psyches afraid of facing any question or argument. Let them rest in peace with their peanut brains!
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