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Debate: Don’t 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 “Hindus For Human Rights”, 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 “well-coordinated” campaign engineered by the “Sangh Parivar” to attack and silence Truschke.

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