It will be better to prepare a model letter that everyone can then send individually. If they receive a few hundred emails it will make more of an impression than a single letter.
Sent from [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home) for iOS On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 12:31, Lyne Bansat-Boudon <[[email protected]](mailto:On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 12:31, Lyne Bansat-Boudon <<a href=)> wrote: > Dear Matthew, > > This an excellent initiative. You can count me among the signatories. > > Best wishes, > > Lyne > > Lyne Bansat-Boudon > > Directeur d'études pour les Religions de l'Inde > > Ecole pratique des hautes études, section des sciences religieuses > > Membre senior honoraire de l'Institut universitaire de France > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > De : INDOLOGY <[email protected]> de la part de Matthew > Kapstein via INDOLOGY <[email protected]> > Envoyé : mardi 5 mars 2024 12:27 > À : Ananya Vajpeyi <[email protected]> > Cc : Indology List <[email protected]> > Objet : Re: [INDOLOGY] Statement Regarding the Murty Classical Library of > India > > Unfortunately, given recent turmoil at Harvard, I do not think that the > interim provost is likely to treat this as a priority. If those concerned, as > many of us are, can organize a letter -writing campaign to the provost’s > office, it may at least demonstrate that the issue is not just ignored. > > Matthew Kapstein > > Sent from [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home) for iOS > > On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 12:14, Ananya Vajpeyi via INDOLOGY > <[[email protected]](mailto:On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 12:14, Ananya > Vajpeyi via INDOLOGY <<a href=)> wrote: > >> Dear Archana, >> >> The statement you have shared with us is distressing, for the turmoil it >> reveals behind the production of this stellar series, so important to all >> scholars of India and South Asia (not just pre modernists and philologists). >> While matters resolve themselves between the editors, the translators, the >> press, the university and the endowment -- amicably and constructively, it >> is to be hoped -- we would do well to revisit an important prospectus by the >> founding general editor of the MCLI, Sheldon Pollock, "What should a >> classical library of India be?" >> >> https://sheldonpollock.org/archive/pollock_loeb_2020.pdf >> >> However many volumes have been published in the past decade, they are but >> the tip of the iceberg. Hoping fervently that all the concerned parties will >> find a way to continue making available to present and future readers the >> almost endless riches of India's multilingual textual archive in high >> quality editions and translations. >> >> Yours, >> >> Ananya. >> >> On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 9:50 PM Archana Venkatesan via INDOLOGY >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Dear Respected Colleagues, >>> >>> With apologies for cross-posting, please see the attached communication >>> from the former editors of the Murty Classical Library of India. >>> >>> Archana >>> -- >>> >>> "When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an >>> incarnation." Jorge Luis Borges >>> >>> [Archana Venkatesan](https://archana.faculty.ucdavis.edu/) >>> (archana.faculty.ucdavis.edu) >>> Graduate Advisor, [Graduate Program in the Study of >>> Religion](https://religionsgrad.ucdavis.edu/) (2022-2024) >>> Professor, Religious Studies and Comparative Literature >>> Phone: 530-754-2821 (Office) >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >> >> -- >> >> Ananya Vajpeyi >> https://www.csds.in/ananya_vajpeyi
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