Mail to Frontline and Hindu group of publications

 

Institute for the Study of the Globalisation of Science

(Registered as ‘Globalisation of Science Trust’)                       Founder-Trustee: Sujay Rao Mandavilli

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To the editor, Frontline Magazine, Hindu group of publications

Dear Sir,

Greetings of the day! I hope this letter finds you in  the best of health and spirits. You might be aware about me and my publications. In case you are not,  please find my profile attached with a complete list of publications. I have been following the Frontline magazine for many decades now. As I matter of fact, I remember having purchased the second issue of your magazine dated 16^th of December 1984, and then having hunted down the very first issue as a souvenir. Much as I appreciate and admire your magazine in parts, I cannot but fail to notice that it is somewhat left-leaning in orientation. While you may have taken a principled stand to combat the menace and the treat of the far-right, you will perhaps agree with me that academic Marxism is not only outdated, but the right and the appropriate way to fight the far right is only through objective neutrality. Anything else is not only anathema, but will only throw up counter reactions and encourage the far right even more. For example, your appear to support Dravidian nationalism in many basis including a tacit support for the Dravidian Harappa hypothesis which from my viewpoint is untenable. I have also written extensively about the perils and follies of Marxist historiography from a non-religious perspective. I will even go as far as to say this: “One kind of bias legitimizes every other kind of bias”. This should be the social sciences equivalent of “Every action will have an equal and opposite reaction”. The issue is two-fold. Firstly, you will lose public trust and self-respect. Secondly, the right will have something to shout about. Hope you will take all this into consideration while writing your future articles. Some members or erstwhile members of your management also appear to be outdated, like former editor N.Ram, and there is plenty of scope for via media approaches, both in the ambit and purview of economic theory and culture. I do hope you will take all this into consideration,

Warm regards,