At first it just sounded like a bunch of over-sensitive, reactionary Hindus, but then

In My Humble Opinion
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Wrath Over a Hindu God
U.S. Scholars’ Writings Draw Threats From Faithful

The overall orientation of the article is how hidebound and oppressive some Hindu faithful are toward this well meaning western academic author, for an analysis she wrote interpreting some aspects of a Hindu diety.

I read all the way to the end of the article and I have to admit they (the complaining Hindus) have a point, not with respect to any threatened violence, but regarding the complaint about the ignorantly offensive nature of the analysis. The article is a Freudian oriented, psychoanalytic interpetation of a Hindu diety by a western academic that finds overtones of Oedipal attraction and oral sex fixation in the natire of the diety. I can see how the Hindu faithful would be pissed, especially considered the (IMO) loopy nature of the analysis by the academic.

Why is Freudian based psychoanalysis even given the time of day anymore?

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Some of those interpretations sound like they might be kind of loopy (bearing in mind that the only thing I know about both the interpretations, and almost the only thing I know about the myths that are being interpreted, is what I’m reading about them in a newspaper article). However, physical violence, calls for government censorship, and death threats are not the best ways to gain my sympathy.

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Is there a non-subscription version of this article tooling around?

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I think the Washington Post subscription is free and takes about 30 seconds