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Debate: Donât Accuse Critics of Indology of Being Handmaidens of Hindutva
In their quest for ideological purity, activists on the Left can sometimes resemble the Far Right, which has little tolerance for differing opinions.
Sita s agni pariksha. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Wire, Raju Rajagopal and Sunita Viswanath from a U.S-based advocacy group called âHindus For Human Rightsâ, criticised me for an article I had  published in
The Hindu where I had joined issue with the scholarship and teaching style of Audrey Truschke, an associate professor at Rutgers University, New Jersey.
In seeking to respond to what I had written, the two authors made a series of sensational, tabloid-style allegations that I was part of a nefarious and âwell-coordinatedâ campaign engineered by the âSangh Parivarâ to attack and silence Truschke.