[Buddha-l] Is there any basis for the allegations concerning the "expulsion" of Ani Karma Lhamu?

[Jo]

Curt

Thanks for the additional information. How come you didn't share it with the
list?

I didn't doubt your take on Sarkar for one minute,  but you kept repeating
the same old story with no mention of an attempt to track her down. That's
why I couldn't figure it out. 

Good on you tracking her right-wing Xtian connections.  I still think that
you might make the additional about her clear to TOI! Why not?--they
probably smelled a rat, as you say, but are too busy to check her out. It
might teach them a small lesson about checking out whom they hire.

Joanna



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[mailto:buddha-l-bounces at mailman.swcp.com] On Behalf Of Curt Steinmetz
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 6:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Is there any basis for the allegations concerning
the "expulsion" of Ani Karma Lhamu?

On 8/19/11 7:14 PM, Jo wrote:
> I suggested to you off-list that you need to write to the editor of 
> the TOI about your perception of unsubstantiated material in the 
> original article. I find it rather odd that you keep on repeating old 
> news and attacking Ms Sarkar instead of writing to the main editor of 
> the TOI (the newspaper where she published the article) and asking about
her lack of published sources.
> Isn't it the obvious next move? You don't know any more about this 
> than you did when your first posted about it on this list.
> Quite strange, really.
>
> Joanna
>

Actually, Joanna, I know a great deal more about this than when I first
posted. I know for example that Sarkar herself has significantly altered her
version of the story, as is immediately apparent if one compares the piece
under her byline from August 16 with what she wrote in the TOI on July 11.

I also now know that Sarkar has been a frequent contributor to the far-right
Christian "news" service called CompassDirect.org since 2009, and that she
also writes for another Christian "news" service based in China called "ENI
News".

In other words, Sudeshna Sarkar knows exactly what she is doing.

As for the Times of India, they appear to be catching on even without my
assistance. They were all over the story until Sarkar started backpedalling
on her claims about the nun being "expelled", but now they have completely
dropped it.

And if you are so certain that Sudeshna Sarkar's original version is valid
then I suggest you email her and complain that she has changed her tune. Her
email address is sudeshna.s at ians.in. While you are at it, you might want to
write to Dewan Rai at the Nepali Times, because he wrote a major article on
the case directly contradicting Sudeshna Sarkar's allegations
(http://nepalitimes.com/issue/2011/07/22/Nation/18400).

Curt Steinmetz
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