“As the Hindu gods are ‘immortal’ only in a very particular sense – for they are born, and they die – they experience most of the great human dilemmas and often seem to differ from mortals only in a few… — 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
“James Joyce, in his novel Finnegans Wake, in 1939, punned on the word “Hindoo” (as the British used to spell it), joking that it… — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
