Muni Seva Ashram

Goraj, Gujarat

From Sabrang/FOIL’s Appendix H of The Foreign Exchange of Hate Report:

Muni Seva Ashram is declared to be a “Hinduization" organization by.

What does Muni Seva Ashram do?

What a traditional Indian “ashram” of the ancient Rishis  is supposed to do – help people. It contains a modern hospital, school, day-care center, a home for the elderly – a “hub of welfare activities”.

This is what the website “baroda-online” [[i]] says about Muni Seva Ashram:
”Muni Seva Ashram’s founder Anuben Thakkar, 58, passed away on 18th December. Originally from a village in the Anjar District of Kutch, she came to Goraj village near Waghodia, in 1978, at the age of 35. Goraj then was a more or less barren area and Anuben built her seva ashram there in determined bits and pieces. The ashram’s modern hospital caters to the people of over 100 villages in the vicinity. The needy are provided subsidised or free medical treatment. The ashram houses the Arogya Mandir, a school, a creche, a home for the elderly, a home for mentally retarded women, ‘Gau Mandir’ and a vocational training centre. It is a hub of welfare activities where the needy find work and food. The Rs. 500 million super speciality Kailash Cancer Hospital is fast nearing completion. The institutions are spread over an area of more than 15 acres and employ a staff of 210. Anuben had a remarkable ability to promote the ashram’s activities in India and abroad. She thus attracted the needed funding as well as the necessary specialist persons to work on the ashram’s various projects. The trustees have decided that the administration of the ashram will now be handed over to Dr. Vikram Patel, who has worked closely with Anuben for the past 18 years.”

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WHO IS ATTACKING THIS ORGANIZATION?

Sabrang / FOIL and the South Asia Faculty. Partial List:

Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University, Deepak Kapur, University of New Mexico, Ayesha Jalal, Tufts University, Tayyab Mahmud, Cleveland State University, Muhammad Umar Memon, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Malini J. Schueller, University of Florida, Asma Afsaruddin, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Notre Dame, Syed Akbar Hyder, Assistant Professor, South Asian Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Sahir Imam, Adjunct Faculty, Miami-Dade Community College, Ashutosh Varshney, University of Michigan, Sylvat Aziz, Associate Professor, Art, Queen's University, Kingston ON , Elena Bashir, The University of Chicago, Dina M. Siddiqi, University of Pennsylvania, Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Padmini Mongia, Franklin & Marshall College Montclair State University, Shahnaz Rouse, Chair, Social Science Faculty, Sarah Lawrence College, Arjun Appadurai, Yale University, C.M. Naim, University of Chicago, Shankar Mahalingam, UC Riverside, George Verghese, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Gauri Viswanathan, Columbia University, Isha Ray, UC Berkeley, Moiez A. Tapia, University of Miami,Dr. Biju Mathew, Rider U., Dr.Angana Chatterji, CIIS, Vijay Prashad, Trinity College, CT, Dr. Vinay Lal, Associate Professor of History, UCLA, Jamal Badawi, St. Mary's University, Halifax, NS,Frederick M. Asher, University of Minnesota, Gary Tartakov, Iowa State University-Ames, Robert Thurman, Columbia University, David G. White, UC Santa Barbara, Suvir Kaul, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University, Nicholas B. Dirks, Columbia University, Frederique Apffel-Marglin, Smith College, Prasenjit Duara, University of Chicago, Jana Everett, University of Colorado, Shelly Feldman, Cornell University, Dane Kennedy, George Washington University Hans Henrich Hock, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Geraldine Forbes, State University of New York Oswego, Rajmohan Gandhi, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Paul Greenough, University of Iowa, Ann Grodzins Gold, Syracuse University, Peter Hook, University of Michigan, Eugene Irshick, UC Berkeley, Kannan Jagannathan, Amherst College, Inderpal Grewal, Professor and Director Women's Studies, University of California, Irvine Sumit Guha, Brown University Ron Herring, Cornell University Robert A. Hueckstedt, University of Virginia Nita Kumar, University of Michigan David Ludden, University of Pennsylvania, Ania Loomba, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Itty Abraham, Social Science Research Council M. A. Muqtedar Khan, Adrian College, Adrian, MI K. V. Lakshmi, Yale University Velcheru Narayana Rao, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Sandra P. Robinson, Sarah Lawrence College Anuradha Dingwaney Needham, Oberlin College Veena Talwar Oldenburg, City University of New York Sheldon Pollock, University of Chicago Gyan Prakash, Princeton University R. Radhakrishnan, Amherst Lloyd Rudolph, University of Chicago Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, University of Chicago Gail Minault, University of Texas, Austin Jayadev Misra, Schlumberger Chair, University of Texas at Austin Bella Mody, Michigan State University Purnima Bose, Indiana University Paula Chakravartty, UC San Diego Meenakshi Chakraverti, Independent Scholar, South Asian Studies Sharad Chari, University of Michigan Manu Bhagavan, Manchester College, Annanya Chatterjea, University of Minnesota Kim Berry, California State University, Humboldt Malathi de Alwis, New School University Elisabeth Armstrong, Smith College Manali Desai, UC Riverside Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Montclair State University Ravina Aggarwal, Smith College Arun Agrawal, McGill University Durba Ghosh, Wellesley College Sally Engle Merry, Wellesley College Barbara Metcalf, University of California, Davis Murray Milner, University of Virginia Sanjay Joshi, Northern Arizona University Flagstaff Shamit Kachru, Stanford University Anjali Arondekar, University of California Santa Cruz Catherine B. Asher, University of Minnesota Kiran Asher, Community and the Environment, Clark University Brian Keith Axel, Swarthmore College Nikhil Aziz, Political Research Associates Aamir Mufti, UCLA, Himadeep R. Muppidi, Vassar College Richa Nagar, University of Minnesota Modhumita Roy, Tufts University Parama Roy, UC Riverside Srirupa Roy, UMass-Amherst Carol Breckenridge, Yale University Allison Busch, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Srimati Basu, DePauw University Jacqueline M. Bhabha, Harvard University Prasannan Parthasarathi, Boston College

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