Historian Peter Heehs asked to leave India India India
The bigger question is: have we been so dulled into
non-thinking by hagiographical works that we are unable to accept another
view? Dismayed that other newspapers have not taken up the Peter Heehs
issue seriously - it is almost as big as Salman Rushdie, MF
Husain. Chidambaram must send a strong signal to religious
fundamentalists: stop harassing thinkers - if you don't like their work, don't
read it. Apart from 30 intellectuals, politicians from Congress and BJP
are supporting Peter Heehs stay in India
US historian may leave UT IBNLive.com
PUDUCHERRY: American Historian Peter Heehs whose
book 'Lives of Sri Aurobindo' raked up controversy is keeping his fingers
crossed after Union home minister P Chidambaram said that he would review the
Ministry's decision not to renew his visa, ...
Chidambaram to decide on Heehs' visa tomorrow Times of
India
PUDUCHERRY: Home minister P Chidambaram will review
the decision to cancel the visa of American historian Peter Heehs, who wrote
the controversial biography 'The Lives of Sri Aurobindo' in 2008. He will make
his decision by Monday, he told reporters.
Replying to questions about American historian Peter
Heehs, Mr. Chidambaram said that he would review the decision on cancellation
of the visa to the historian who was living in Puducherry by Monday. Mr. Heehs
was asked to leave the country after he ...
PC orders review into historian's visa row Hindustan Times
Home minister P Chidambaram on Saturday asked for a
review of an order denying American historian Peter Heehs a visa extension.
Heehs, who has been living in India
Is extremists' objection to his book behind US historians
expulsion? Hindustan Times - Mar 30, 2012
The ostensible reason for the non-extension of
Heehs's visa, according to sources, is his ninth book, 'The Lives of Sri
Aurobindo'. For years, a handful of religious fundamentalists have been
harassing Heehs over his treatment of Sri Aurobindo's ...
Posthuman
Destinies - Cancellation of US historian Peter Heehs’s visa to be reviewed:
P Chidambaram - Heehs
Biography Controversy (SCIY) - SA used different terminologies and different
formulations in different texts, this doesn’t necessarily mean he abandoned one
for the other. debbanerji Posted
March 14, 2012 Permalink
A critique of the book "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo"
by Peter Heehs - Video Report of Dilip Datta's Violence against Devotees in
Silent Protest
Overman Foundation - Publication of the second edition of “Sri Aurobindo: His
Political Life and Activities”.
Auroville
Radio - Sharing Auroville`s life and spirit - A way to Divine Anarchy
31 March 2012: Don't
expel US historian, govt told Addendum: The question about the relationship
between Sri Aurobindo and the Mother is only one of dozens of objections raised
by that handful of religious fundamentalists; it is not even mentioned in the
Orissa Gazette Notification. It is, however, what appears to produce the most
visceral effect in the public, for reasons we fail to understand. Heehs made it
perfectly clear that there was no sexual element at all in this relationship.
On the contrary, what he wrote underscores its profoundly sacred nature. Only
readers with a serious Freudian hang-up can fail to see this. Moreover, we are
aware that Minister Jairam Ramesh has read and greatly appreciated The
Lives of Sri Aurobindo. He has written Heehs privately about this and also
mentioned it in his letter to the Home Minister. We regret that the writer of
this otherwise excellent report did not quote from JR's letter the positive
comments about the book, along with the lines relating to the larger issue of
freedom of expression. — Editors, IYF. Recent Additions
1 April 2012: Chidambaram
to decide on Heeh's visa
31 March 2012: Don't
expel US historian, govt told
10 March 2012: Those
who get upset by these things are worse
24 February 2012: Sri
Aurobindo, Heehs and the fragility of faith
9 August 2011: Review
by Antony Copley
31 July 2011: BAN
the BAN by Ramachandra Guha
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