if someone gives witzel an academic sinecure somewhere else (harvard is slowly shutting down its sanskrit dept) i am pretty sure he will sing a different tune.
From: Zoom Indian Media
Date: Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 10:48 AM
Subject: Michael Witzel on Dr Swamy
To:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/15626
Just to inform you about the insidious Subramanian Swami, head of the minuscule
Janata Party in India, and once ---decades ago-- Associate Professor of
Economics at Harvard.
The Faculty Meeting of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted this
afternoon almost unanimously (against 3-4 counter votes) to remove the Harvard
Summer School classes of Subramanian Swamy from our roster. The prevailing
reason, expressed by several faculty members, was his hate speech last Summer
against Muslims and other minorities In India.
The case should be reported tomorrow in the University's student newspaper, the
Harvard Crimson.
<http://www.thecrimson.com/>
See also the Crimson's earlier article:
<http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/7/27/swamy-harvard-india-petition/>
Below is the beginning of his opinion page last Summer:
<http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/analysis_how-to-wipe-out-islamic-terror_156620\
3-all>
This link does not work any longer, it seems; there are some indications online
that it has been removed.
S
ee however Wikipedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subramanian_Swamy>:
Reaction to 2011 Mumbai bombings
In response to the 2011 Mumbai bombings, he wrote an editorial in Daily News and
Analysis(DNA) claiming that "Muslims of India are being programmed by a slow
reactive process to become radical and thus slide into suicide against Hindus".
He then set out a programme for dealing with this alleged threat, including
repealing Article 370 of the Constitution of India (which granted special
autonomous status to Jammu and Kashmir), removing the Gyanvapi Mosque atKashi
Vishwanath Temple and other mosques at Hindu temples, disenfranchising
non-Hindus who refuse to acknowledge their Hindu ancestry, prohibiting
conversion from Hinduism to other religions, and annexing part of Bangladesh in
retaliation for Bangladeshi illegal immigration in India.[15]. Swamy had written
a similar column in The New Indian Express after the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
More tomorrow when the final vote counts are in.
Michael
Cheers,
Michael
> ============
> Michael Witzel
> witzel@...
> <www.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mwpage.htm>
> Wales Prof. of Sanskrit &
> Director of Graduate Studies,
> Dept. of South Asian Studies, Harvard University
> 1 Bow Street,
> Cambridge MA 02138, USA
>
> phone: 1- 617 - 495 3295, 496 8570, fax 617 - 496 8571;
> my direct line: 617- 496 2990
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