11. Wendy Doniger Translating India

My guest this month is Wendy Doniger. Read more about her and her many wonderful books here and here . She was educated at Radcliffe , the only part of Harvard then to admit women, and at Oxford . She has taught at SOAS , but has spent most of her career at the University of Chicago's Divinity School , on the Committee on Social Thought , and in South Asian Languages and Civilizations . Among her teachers, she lists Daniel Ingalls at Harvard, Robert Zaehner at Oxford, and in India, Ali Akbar Khan , from whom she learnt to play the Sarod , and the Purāṇic scholar Rajendra Chandra Hazra . Among the many texts that find mention today are the Kāmasūtra , Kālidāsa's Kumārasaṃbhava (and that same story as it appears e.g. in the Śivapurāṇa ), the story of Nala from the Mahābhārata , and among Professor Doniger's own books, The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology , Dreams, Illusion and Other Realities , The Donigers of Great Neck and An American Girl in India , which she talks about here . Read more about Mircea Eliade , Santiniketan , the mā niṣāda śloka , and see the hotel from Gentlemen's Agreement . Among the books Wendy Doniger recommends for kindling our interest in India are The Wonder That Was India , Midnight's Children , A Passage to India , Village India , The Inner Life of Dust , the works of A. K. Ramanujan . Her review of the Goldman translation of The Rāmāyaṇa can be found here .

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This episode was published on Jun 1, 2022.

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