“James Joyce, in his novel Finnegans Wake, in 1939, punned on the word “Hindoo” (as the British used to spell it), joking that it came from the names of two Irishmen, Hin-nessy and Doo-ley: “This is the hindoo Shimar Shin… — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people? — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
“As the Hindu gods are ‘immortal’ only in a very particular sense – for they are born, and they die – they experience most… — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think…Throughout the Mahabharata ... Krishna goads human beings into all sorts of… — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
Women were forbidden to study the most ancient sacred text, the Veda, — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
(Sarah Palin's) greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman. — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that… — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
“whether or not people get the gods that they deserve, they tend to get the gods (and demons) that their animals deserve—” — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
“The future Buddha was once born as a rabbit, who vowed that he would give his own flesh to any beggar who came to… — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
Wine is the liquid form of the Goddess Tara, who is the saviour of all living creatures, the mother of all enjoyment and Release,… — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red powder and… — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
“In 1864 a geologist named that supercontinent Lemuria, because he used the theory to account for the fact that living lemurs were found, in… — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
