If one reallyreads this piece, one can carefully separate the images and stack them in two different piles, dividing the world of Sanskrit studies into two poles: the world of liberal Western Indology (characterized by mellow, often-nostalgic phrases, such as, ‘the safe cocoon of yet another great American institution’, and grandiose proclamations of superiority, ‘best scholars’, ‘top universities’), led by enlightened scholars like ‘Sheldon Pollock and his colleagues’ who help us ‘to understand the history, the power, the circulation and the importance of Sanskrit knowledge systems,’ the suave, earnest, passionate people, caring only for a global cosmology of Sanskrit – a world of knowledge independent of the geographical boundaries of India since Sanskrit clearly needs to be saved from Indians – the good guys really, standing tall against the supposedly ‘dark side of Sanskrit’, the dwindling minority of scholars in India, small men, obscure and petty, ‘embattled inside collapsing institutions’ (you can actually smell the dust under the tables and the cobwebs in the corners) mired in ‘caste hierarchy and sexism, inequality and misogyny,’ and erecting walls ‘of prejudice’ against outsiders.