* Prof. Vivek Dhareshwara
How does one interpret the massive attack on Dunkin Jalki’s thesis about the vacanas and the caste system? Let us not forget that no one except Professor Shivaprakash has read the thesis. But of course the target has been the larger research milieu that has come into being through a discussion of the research programme initiated by Balu’s Heathen.
I use the term milieu rather than group or collective to indicate the fact that the researchers interact on the basis of the questions they are pursuing; they are otherwise very heterogeneous, if we take their national, political, institutional or social affiliations.And it is research that is the focus of this milieu, not this or that political agenda or social issue.
The Beginning of a New Movement