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Bad coverage of the issue in Indian press in US
by Shekar Mantha on Feb 04, 2006 02:09 PM   Permalink

I read an interview (either in India West or India Abroad) of the attorney who defended the case on behalf of the Hindu parents and of Prof. Witzel. As you probably know Witzel is a "Sanskrit" scholar who spoke out against the changes and levied ad-hominum attacks on the Hindu parents and organizations that were requesting the gross errors in the textbooks to be corrected.

Unfortunately, I do not remember the name of the attorney or the dates of the interviews. May be one of your readers will provide this information.

Anyway, here is my take on the two interviews.

The attorney got asked all kinds of tough questions (I thought she answered them admirably) whereas Witzel was let off easily, given leading questions so he could espouse his ad hominum attacks again and never asked to explain why he did not think blatant errors such as Ramayana coming after Mahabharata and Aryan invasion theory should be corrected.

I don't know the political leanings of these newspapers if these interviews are any indication, you can include them in your "usual suspects."

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