On Bashing Manu Smriti

by BS Murthy in English Magazine

On Bashing Manu Smriti, Or Flogging A Dead Horse Riding A Blind Ass By BS Murthy None knows when Manu Smriti had its last sway, if at all, over the Indian polity but still the Hindu castes that it ...Read Morelazily hold it against the Brahmins that it once exalted, and ominously, the evangelists cynically bash Hinduism with it to lure the former into their Semitic fold. However, this essay is not an exercise to endorse the extinct Smriti per se but an attempt to expose the perceptive vacuity and the intellectual dishonesty, as the case may be, of its Read Less