[BEF] Fwd: Fwd: International meet on Indian history - Michael Witzel Plagiarizes

January 11, 2009

Dear Kishore

Thanks, someone else also sent this to me. Now Witzel is a non-entity of the first waters (Harvard!!) and so is beneath contempt and need not be rebutted for personal lack of grace, and anyway has no academic credentials to speak of.

But how did he know what I said on a private group, I did not know he was a member of any group I am on? It is quite astonishing.

Warm regards

Sandhya

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kishore patnaik

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Sunday, January 11, 2009 1:12 PM

[bEF] Fwd: Re: Fwd: International meet on Indian history - Michael Witzel Plagiarizes

---------- Forwarded message ----------Kishore patnaik <kishorepatnaik09 >Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 1:09 PM Re: Fwd: International meet on Indian history - Michael Witzel Plagiarizes

Dear sandhya, I am posting here what has been written by MW in his schoar group IERvery dishonestly.Quote:"For your weekend amusement, though the repeated insistence on"rewriting" of Indian history is really ... boring:See: <http://tinyurl.com/8mofml>"US-based engineer turned historian, Dr Vepa" says it all...Like our long time friends mathematician Rajaram, bank employees Dr.K. and Talageri, electric engineering Prof. S. Kak, medicaltechnician V. Agarwal (M.Sc.), astrologers like David Fawley("Vamedeva") etc. etc. Likewise, K. Vepa: he has a PhD of theUniversity of Waterloo in Engineering Sciences & applied mechanics,studied there 1968 â€" 1972.*Anybody* in the Indian orbit can turn historian overnight, at thedrop of a hat.Preferably, after retirement...Yesterday a conference on this topic has begun in Delhi:<http://www.thestatesman.org/page.arcview.php?clid=2 & id=265809 & usrsess=139258>tiny URL: <http://tinyurl.com/8mofml>Interestingly, even IER/Westerner-baiter Sandhya Jain (rabidcolumnist in the chauvinistic paper, the Organizer), had to comment:"NONE of the persons mentioned is a historian!"Sure, it is a *political* event that she should actually welcome :^)"Unquote , "Sandhya Jain" <sandhya206wrote:>> NONE of the persons mentioned is a historian!> > - > Raghu Rao > > Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:44 PM> Fwd: International meet on Indian history> > > religious-freedom , "Raghu Rao" <raoraghus@>> wrote:> > http://www.thestatesman.org/page.news.php?clid=2 & theme= & usrsess=1 & id=239258> > International meet on Indian history> > Statesman News Service> > NEW DELHI, Jan. 7: A three-day international conference on Indian> history, civilization and geopolitics is set to begin here on Friday.> The executive director of the Indic Studies Foundation, Dr Kosla Vepa,> said the aim of the conference was "to decolonise various aspects of> ancient Indian history and its chronology which were deliberately> distorted and mis-dated during the British Raj with a view to causing> confusion and a sense of inferiority among Indians".> > He said the conference is expected to be a landmark event in the> interpretation of ancient Indian history since the "current version of> history is not accurate and distorted. There is need to rewrite the> history of India. History as we see it".> > The US-based engineer turned historian, Dr Vepa said the conference> "aims at increasing awareness of strategic thinking in India and to> show that a strategic approach based on long-term objectives is> essential to ensure a safe and secure future for the ancient Indian> civilisation and lead it to still greater heights".> > Dr Vepa who has been studying history for over a decade now said it> was a forensic science and depends on numerous other subjects and was> not just the study of dates or mere guess work. Asked whether> institutions like Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) and> NCERT have been invited for the conference, he said: "They have not> given their consent to attending it." However, historians and scholars> who are expected to attend the conference include Mr Bharat Karnad, Mr> Kanwal Sibal, Mr Uday Bhaskar, Mr JS Rajput and Mr Vikram Sood.> > --- End forwarded message --->