Letter to NYT about Wendy doniger's book

Dear Editor,
This is regarding the article about Wendy Doniger's book that appeared Online at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/31/books/31conn.html
titled: The Scholar who irked the Hindu puritans.

This article projects doniger as a lone scholar braving assaults from hindu fundamentalists. While rothstein is charmed by the photograph of a young doniger on the pages of her book, one wonders what bearing that has to her scholarship of hinduism. The fact that eggs were thrown at her and "threatening" emails sent to her is brandished proudly to pad her celebrity status.Based on superficial research with a eagerness to explain anything and everything in terms of freud's theories on sexuality, she arrives at erroneous interpretations of hindu mythology. Of course, raising doubts or putting up counter-points (Like Rajiv Malhotra did) is beyond question. You will be deemed an "Attacker" or part of the hindu "right", as if no sane person might raise such doubts. At no point in time is an attempt made to see issues from the point of view of indigenious cultures, rather freud seems to explain everything just fine. As Indians emerged from the 250 years of colonialism, and struggled with developing their country, People like doniger thrived in peddling second rate fiction as research. Since 1990 when the influx of Indian professionals in the US increased and Many Indians found the spare time to revisit their cultures, it was a profound shock to many, how tabloid-style pop theories made up for research in Hindu studies. It also added to the burden of many Indians who had to explain to innocent Americans that perversion was not a way of life in india. No doubt such theories fed into the popular version of a weird, chaotic , "junglee" India that was passed out during colonialism. Obviously how such an image coheres with the current fad of yoga and meditation is never delved into.It is indeed amazing, as was put by many people like rajiv malhotra, that while Islamic studies or jewish studies has been dominated by "insiders" who practice the religion, Indians demanding a similar setup for hindu studies is demonised, by seeing it as "attempts to take over".In an attempt to polish off any serious questions that might asked about her research, doniger seems concerned that a "righteous revolution" might become a "reign of terror". Neither of which seem to in the minds of people like Rajiv, who are attempting to bring in serious research into the field. Can freud maybe explain the "terror" doniger is mentioning about??
regards,
Karthik Iyer