Ganesh

[Guest guest]

Dear Dr. Rao,

 

Thanks for your mail of 29th October 2003 regarding the book: GANESHA by

PAUL B.COURTRIGHT.

 

Firstly, I am obliged that you have gone through the book and made us aware

about the extremely objectionable passages including the cover of the book.

In fact, the book was published in 1985 by OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS and we

never heard any adverse comments, hence without getting that reviewed we

undertook the publication since it was originally published by an

internationally established publisher. We did not care to go through the

book thinking that this would be academically well acceptable.

 

We are extremely sorry that the content of the book has hurt the sentiments

of our beloved readers and the community at large. We offer our SINCEREST

APOLOGIES to all our readers.

 

We have already withdrawn the circulation of the book from the

market and discontinued the sale.Further, we ensure that no such lapse shall

ever occur in future. This need not be reiterated that MLBD has ever

published any such offensive matter knowingly in the entire history of

their publication for the last 100 years. Being one of the best known

publishers devoted to Hinduism and ancient Indian culture we would never

think to tarnish the

image of any religion. This has been an omission on our part and we are

really apologetic to the readers for its publication.

 

May we request you to kindly circulate our letter of apology to various

religious organisations, centres, and the Hindu community at large. A press

release for the withdrawal of the circulation of the book has already been

issued. We are also sending copies of this mail to various people around the

world and would also like to have the E-mail addresses of other

organisations, who we can inform for further circulation of this mail.

 

ONCE AGAIN WE REGRET FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE AFORESAID BOOK AND THANKS

FOR INFORMING US OF SUCH OBJECTIONS.

 

With kind regards,

 

Sincerely,

Rajeev Jain

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