We invite you to tea and talk online with American indologist Wendy Doniger on April 9, Saturday, at 4.30 pm On the occasion of the book launch of "Hinduvulu: Oka Pratyamanaya Charitra" by Wendy Doniger and translated by Ashok Tankasala from her original title of "Hindus: An Alternative History".

The topics of discussion will range from Hinduism, its history and literature, the culture of the subalterns, unnoticed facts from Indian history and culture, the controversy around interpretations of Hindu mythological texts, etc.

Doniger was born in New York City to immigrant non-observant Jewish parents. She graduated in Sanskrit and Indian Studies from Radcliffe College, and received her M.A. from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in June 1963. She then studied in India in 1963–1964 with a 12-month Junior Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies. She received a Ph.D. from Harvard University with a dissertation on Asceticism and Sexuality in the Mythology of Siva, supervised by Daniel H. H. Ingalls, Sr. She obtained a D. Phil. in Oriental Studies from Oxford University, later with a dissertation on The Origins of Heresy in Hindu Mythology.

All are welcome to this evening of interaction.