http://www.docstoc.com/docs/112814725/GUNA-DOSHA-PARIKSHA-Alpha-_-Omega-of-the-BOOK

Examining the positive and negative aspects of the book, in two parts by G.P. Srinivasan, Jan. 31, 2012 (45 pages)

Part 1: Guna Dosha Pariksha* with Purva paksha on the strange case of non-reacting Hindus

Part 2: Guru Dosha Pariksha with Purva Paksha on the Alpha and Omega of Parangikkai syndrome

* Guna-Dosha Pariksha (GDP) is in the pure Bharatiya tradition of going into merits and demerits of a grantha immediately after it comes into existence.

Where will you send an SOS?

What would you do as an individual living in a small town in India, when you receive message an SMS in the midnight, asking you to respond. The message is short and crisp: "Urgent. We need endorsements from Acharyas of established Mutts that Prabhupada's 'Bhagavad Gita As it is', is the same as original Bhagavad Gita and there are no deviations. We want to submit those certificats in a Siberian court. Urgent. We have only two more days. The case would be coming up for hearing on 28 December 2012. The message was received on 26 December 12:45 AM. What would you do at that hour? Where will you turn for help? Who will help you? The case against Gita would be coming up for hearing in 72 hours in a faraway place Tomsk, (have you heard the name before?) in Siberia! Where will you pass on tht message as an SOS? Which Hindu Mutt or Acharya will respond at that hour in such short notice?

Civilization under attack

Is it necessary to reply to critics? To be more specific, should critics of our civilization be answred? Do the critics deserve a reply? "What are you going to get by replying to critics". "By your criticism 'you will be giving them free advertisement'; "Why do you give them importance?" "Better do not reply" are some of the resons given by the protagonists, at to why critics must not be rebutted...

...Parangikkai syndrome

"This is a satire. To be referred in unfair occasions when you often see yourself before dumb intellectualizations of westerners presented as authentic cuisine from the east."

...This yellow-orange-red combination coloured 'Parangikkai' entered the dictionaries of the world and given the term white gourd. The whites are called Parangis by South Indians as their skin colour resembled the colour of the Parangikkai. It became Firangis in north India. The flowers that originated from the creeper is normally taken out an planted on the holy month of Margazhi (corresponding December-January) on top of a heap of dark green cow dung positioned in the centre of Kolam drawn in very early morning filled with mist when Bhajan parties go about singing songs from their holy scriptures of Thiruppavai or Thiruvembavai). Is there someone who will pass on the definition and accurate description to David Schulman, and Wendy Doniger combe as they missed this out, in their graphic descriptions of 'rice powder designs'... (pp. 32-33)