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| Nivedita Menon says the video is not doctored but “massively decontextualized.” |
March 9, 2016, NewsCrunch
JNU Prof Nivedita Menon has shared the full video of her 2014 speech on Hinduism.
She has been in the middle of a storm for questioning the accession of Manipur andKashmir and also for criticising Hinduism.
Writing in Kafila, she says a two-minute video, which shows her saying that Hinduism is the world’s most violent religion is in circulation.
JNU Prof Nivedita Menon has shared the full video of her 2014 speech on Hinduism.
She has been in the middle of a storm for questioning the accession of Manipur and
Writing in Kafila, she says a two-minute video, which shows her saying that Hinduism is the world’s most violent religion is in circulation.
She also says Zee TV’s Sudhir Chaudhary had reportedly challenged her to prove the video was doctored.
She says the video is not doctored but “massively decontextualized.” It was not a classroom lecture, but a political meeting organized after the attack on Kiss of Love protest in
She spoke at a meeting after the event and that was when she made her comments on Hinduism. She says she stands by every word and gesture in the 18 minute long video.
She quotes from the writings of Ambedkar and Periyar to criticise Manusmriti, caste system and the treatment of the depressed classes.
If she criticised Hinduism, she says, she did so by standing on the shoulders of these giants.
Nivedita Menon teaches at the Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory,School of International Studies
She quotes from the writings of Ambedkar and Periyar to criticise Manusmriti, caste system and the treatment of the depressed classes.
If she criticised Hinduism, she says, she did so by standing on the shoulders of these giants.
Nivedita Menon teaches at the Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory,