Robert J. Zydenbos

"Why should it be so important that the Aryans . . . have been in the subcontinent since all eternity? That would come close to the Blut and Boden ideology of Nazism, with its Aryan rhetoric. Why the xenophobia? Does he really not see the parallel between Nazi attacks on synagogues in the 1930's and what happened in Ayodhya on December 6th?"

"We would not have believed it, but it is really printed there, black on white: an academic tries to score against a fellow academic by arbitrarily linking him with an event which had not yet taken place when the latter's paper was published, and with which he had strictly nothing to do, viz. the demolition of the Babri mosque. Add to this that he accuses Prof. Rajaram of something "close to" Nazi ideology, and we wonder: how would he fare if he accused a western colleague in the same vein in a western paper?"