Guest guest Posted June 12, 2001 Report Share Posted June 12, 2001 INDOLOGY, Lars Martin Fosse <lmfosse@o...> wrote: > Dear muddle-headed member of the Twisted Minds Association! VA: Sorry, I am not a member of your association. > > I'll show you my publications list when you have spent 6 months on this > list without using offensive language, VA: Oh well! And of course you being a European will decide what are good manners. I requested for a list of your publications because I discovered that NOT ONE reputed journal on Indology and South Asian studies (and I have read hundreds of issues) that I read in the last several years has a single publication authored by you. Not to mention that even your PhD thesis does not have any realy conclusion. Maybe you publish only in Norwegian journals. > and without insulting me or >other > people. In other words, acquire some manners, and I might even start taking > you seriously. VA: I have a suggestion. Go the old Indology list and do a statistical comparison of your posts and mine looking at the proportions of posts that have a political content, personal attack, abusive statement. Let me know what your results are. >The only good thing to be said about you today, is >that you > have the courage to sign your own postings with your name. VA: So that is how linguists and philologists draw conclusions! I am erratic in signing and not signing my posts and there is absolutely need for 'courage' to sign my own name when it is displayed so prominently in my email address. You can of course choose to apply Harvard Professor Jeffrey Kripal style psycho-analysis. After all philologists and linguists know everything! > > But on second thoughts, that may not be courage at all, it may be something > else... VA: Maybe only Nordics have courage. Is your remark manifestation of 'masculine Europe, feminine Asia' (aka 'Aggressive Aryan horsemen riding into docile Indian IVC heartlands to caste their caucasian genes') mindest? Just joking. Please do not tax your over-burdened mind with this remark. Yours signatorily, Vishal Santosh Agarwal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 12, 2001 Report Share Posted June 12, 2001 Dear Sri Agarwal, Many of us in the list are apolitical. I am of Indian origin and am pained when views on India are distorted and misrepresented to create "supremacy". I have liked many of your postings and your defence of India silently. I am an admirer. However, the honesty that anyone professes as a scholar does not entitle to call names to other individuals. If these individuals are not worth your merit, you may leave them alone. By using language that would be considered unprofessional, the list definitely suffers. Calling names is neither research, nor scholarship. I believe you are good scholar, but with high passion. The goal in life is to contain passion and respect viewpoints. After all this is the least India taught to the world. Let me hope I am heard on behalf of the tradition. Bijoy Misra. On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 VAgarwalV wrote: > INDOLOGY, Lars Martin Fosse <lmfosse@o...> wrote: > > > Dear muddle-headed member of the Twisted Minds Association! > VA: Sorry, I am not a member of your association. > > > > > I'll show you my publications list when you have spent 6 months on > this > > list without using offensive language, > VA: Oh well! And of course you being a European will decide what are > good manners. I requested for a list of your publications because I > discovered that NOT ONE reputed journal on Indology and South Asian > studies (and I have read hundreds of issues) that I read in the last > several years has a single publication authored by you. Not to mention > that even your PhD thesis does not have any realy conclusion. Maybe > you publish only in Norwegian journals. > > > and without insulting me or > >other > > people. In other words, acquire some manners, and I might even start > taking > > you seriously. > VA: I have a suggestion. Go the old Indology list and do a statistical > comparison of your posts and mine looking at the proportions of posts > that have a political content, personal attack, abusive statement. Let > me know what your results are. > > >The only good thing to be said about you today, is > >that you > > have the courage to sign your own postings with your name. > VA: So that is how linguists and philologists draw conclusions! I am > erratic in signing and not signing my posts and there is absolutely > need for 'courage' to sign my own name when it is displayed so > prominently in my email address. You can of course choose to apply > Harvard Professor Jeffrey Kripal style psycho-analysis. After all > philologists and linguists know everything! > > > > > But on second thoughts, that may not be courage at all, it may be > something > > else... > VA: Maybe only Nordics have courage. Is your remark manifestation of > 'masculine Europe, feminine Asia' (aka 'Aggressive Aryan horsemen > riding into docile Indian IVC heartlands to caste their caucasian > genes') mindest? Just joking. Please do not tax your over-burdened > mind with this remark. > > Yours signatorily, > > Vishal Santosh Agarwal > > > > indology > > > > Your use of is subject to > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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