Dear Friends, I am confused by this delayed public outrage and regret that Dr Paturi has thought to communicate to the members of this list, instead of speaking to me privately. I'm not sure what the desired outcome of this protest is meant to be. Though if some new readers come to click on the link shared, I welcome it.
I intend to the keep this response brief and consider this case closed from here on. Please let me directly address a fundamental point. This paper sat waiting to be published for close to 18 months. If I recall correctly, it was accepted for publication in 2016 or early 2017. Nagaraj, over the course of 2014-17 we regularly engaged in some robust conversations on this very list. They were terribly edifying for me. I value those exchanges. We continued several conversations privately over many replies. You were always courteous and generous with your time and knowledge. I learned a great deal from you. Even to this day there are a few things you said to me that rattle around in my brain and guide my ideas. Our exchanges even lead to you suggesting I apply for a job and me literally being offered a job at Flame University in late 2017. Though I had already accepted an offer to come to Japan, I still had a 3hr phone call with some representative from Flame whose name I forget, though he acknowledged our sambandhi. While you might not have seen a draft of this paper or even known it existed. Though your thoughts over the years helped shaped core aspects of the thesis central to this and several other papers since published. I felt indebted to you and thought it necessary to acknowledge your help. I imagine the perceived offense is that you overdetermined my acknowledgement to directly relate to this specific paper and that you had some part to play in its crafting. It is regrettable that this has occurred. Though, in an oblique way, you most certainly did. As well, a careful reading of the full acknowledgment does not actually suggest that you did. Neither is necessarily implied. For instance, I do not thank you for "reading a draft and offering valuable suggestions". Sincerely, Patrick On Tue, 15 Jun. 2021, 15:01 Nagaraj Paturi via INDOLOGY, < [email protected]> wrote: > I found the following acknowledgements passage : > > Acknowledgements > I would like to thank Shameem Black, Andrew Ollet, Brian Hatcher, Brian > Pennington, Nagaraj Paturi, Dominik Wujastyk, Patricia Mumme, Karl-Stéphan > Bouthillette, Borayin Larios, Vikram Zutshi, Andrey Klebanov, the anonymous > reviewers, and the editors at Asian Ethnology for their constructive > comments. > > in an article > > "Stretching into the Shadows: Unlikely Alliances, Strategic Syncretism, > and De-Post-Colonizing Yogaland's "Yogatopia(s)" > > by Patrick McCartney > > at > > > https://www.academia.edu/41273385/Stretching_into_the_Shadows_Unlikely_Alliances_Strategic_Syncretism_and_De_Post_Colonizing_Yogalands_Yogatopia_s_ > > I never knew this article, never read it before I found it just now. > > So the question of my providing any comments to it constructive or > otherwise does not arise. > > So this statement in this passage is not factual. > > I reject his thanks and protest the manufacturing of my providing comments > to it . > > Wanted to share it here because we two are members here in this forum. > > Thanks for your understanding. > > Regards, > > Nagaraj > > > Nagaraj Paturi > > Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA. > > > Director, Indic Academy > BoS, MIT School of Vedic Sciences, Pune, Maharashtra > BoS Kavikulaguru Kalidasa Sanskrit University, Ramtek, Maharashtra > BoS Veda Vijnana Gurukula, Bengaluru. > Member, Advisory Council, Veda Vijnana Shodha Samsthanam, Bengaluru > BoS Rashtram School of Public Leadership > Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Studies in Public Leadership > Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies, > FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of Liberal Education, > Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >
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