Rajiv Malhotra has quite taken my fancy because he is that most insidious of persons, who hides under the name of scholarship and higher intelligence and disguises his prejudice and hateful ideology with verbiage.
This is what Malhotra had to say about Western women: http://www.lehigh.edu/~amsp/2004/04/much-ado-about-ganesha-paul-courtright.html "Western women, such as the famous professor herself, who are suppressed by the prudish and male chauvinistic myths of the Abrahamic religions, find in their study of Hinduism a way to release their innermost latent vasanas, but they disguise this autobiography as a portrayal of the “other” (in this case superimposing their obsessions upon Hindu deities and saints). " He elaborates: "Is sex a euphemism for god? Or is god a euphemism for sex? Or both!” 2) American Lesbian and Gay women's vasanas, also suppressed by Abrahamic condemnation, seek private and public legitimacy, and therefore, interpret Indian texts for this autobiographical purpose." But wait a minute, this inter-faith Guru has this to say about Islam. "Once the population of Muslims in a given region crosses a threshold in numbers and/or assertiveness, such demands begin. Once this ball is set in motion, the euphoria builds up into a frenzy, and galvanizes the Pan-Islamic global loyalty discussed in #2 below. The temperature is made to boil until Muslims worldwide see the expansion of their territory as God's work. The US will have this experience at some point during the next few decades" Bravo, Malhotra has just demonised 1/6 of the world population and add Christians to it, we have only Shintoism and Hinduism left as a possible path to salvation. Now, I wonder if any mainstream reputable publication in the West would ever have the indecency to call Hindu women, suppressed lesbians because of their religion. I wonder what an uproar that would cause and how tolerant the upholders of Hinduism back in India would be of such a statement. But ofcourse, we can say anything about Christianity and not hear a peep. Best, Selma