Edited sentence: "  It will come as no surprise that she is as unloving of the Hindu Right as she is of the Right in America…Her previous scholarship, one notes, has been derided by "political" Hindus, a cadre notorious for its intolerance of unconventional interpretations of Hindu sacred texts."  Tartness is a quality that Ms.A militant Hindu once hurled an egg at Ms.Doniger as she lectured in London.Doniger does a deft job of tracing their few unifying tenets -- those of karma (actions) and dharma (righteousness) and a merit-based afterlife -- and of holding these beliefs up to critical examination against the obvious injustices of the caste system….Doniger has in abundance.Doniger is a scholar of Sanskrit literature, myth, religion, and culture.Doniger trains her light on the use and abuse of Hindu mythology in modern Indian politics, what she calls "the past in the present.Her work approaches texts with the tools of a philologist, and as books written by people.Her work has attracted controversy.Instructively, too…Ms.Of this episode she writes: "He missed his aim, in every way.That can be a source of aggravation to people who approach those books with reverential bias.Tunku Varadarajan, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business and a fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and the opinions editor at Forbes Magazine, in his April 2009 Wall Street Journal review of her most recent work, The Hindus: An Alternative History, says “Ms