Re: [tied] Vedic literature and the Gulf of Cambay discovery

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 13907
Date: 2002-06-20

It wasn't me, Vishal, so I leave it to the author of the message to defend himself from your accusations of "Witzelism". I mentioned Hancock later in that thread since, regrettably, he has taken advantage of the Gulf of Cambay research to promote and sell his own crazy ideas. I have not attributed a nationalistic bias to any Indian scholar or official involved in the Gulf of Cambay research. I did criticise premature releases, inflated claims and popular press "factoids" in lieu of published results -- but these are facts, not something I have imagined. I regard it as quite likely (from what I've seen so far) that the "ruins" and the vast majority of the "artifacts" will eventually turn out to be natural formations. Mark my words: the anticlimax will be the more embarrassing the more wishful thinking people are showing now.
 
I hope you don't regard Indian science as a sacred cow. As far as I'm concerned, you're always welcome to criticise Polish science if it desereves it :)
 
Piotr
 
 
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: vishalsagarwal
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Vedic literature and the Gulf of Cambay discovery

We ARE NOT talking about Hancock. Please refer to your original post
at

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/13883

In this message, you say:

"Unfortunately the evidence for this "city" comes only from Indian
scholars
with a reputation for - and interest in - these fairly extreme "India
first"
ideas..."

WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THESE 'INDIAN' SCHOLARS that you are so
trigger happy in characterizing them in an unfair manner?

The frequency with which you make these racial slurs against scholars
of Indian origin, to deny their obvious import later on, is quite
disturbing to me. I wonder if you are making just too many Freudian
slips.

I again ask you not to become another Witzel and comment on matters
of which you do not have any knowledge. It is not the prerogative
scholars of a particular ethnicity to make such prejudiced remarks
against people of Indian origin. Such erroneous remarks only tend to
expose subliminal biases and do not credit to Indo-European studies,
whose origins and EVEN current patronage are intermeshed with racism
to a great extent, as we all know.

Sincerely,

Vishal