{"id":3750,"date":"2003-12-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/12\/02\/2003-12-02-a-critique-on-microsoft-encarta-s-description-of-hinduism\/"},"modified":"2003-12-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-02T12:00:00","slug":"2003-12-02-a-critique-on-microsoft-encarta-s-description-of-hinduism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/12\/02\/2003-12-02-a-critique-on-microsoft-encarta-s-description-of-hinduism\/","title":{"rendered":"A Critique on Microsoft Encarta&#8217;s Description of Hinduism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sulekha.com\/expressions\/column.asp?cid=245733\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>CHENNAI, INDIA, September 24, 2003: The Hindu community has been looking at the way Hinduism is presented in Microsoft Corporation&#8217;s free on-line Encarta Encyclopedia. The original Encarta article is <a HREF=\"http:\/\/encarta.msn.com\/encyclopedia_761555715\/Hinduism.html\">here<\/a>. Sanskrant Sanu outlines the different approach that Encarta takes when explaining Hinduism as opposed to the approach taken when explaining Islam and Christianity. Sanu explains, &#8220;Encarta is widely used as a reference source in American schools. In particular, because of its widespread use amongst children, we would expect Encarta&#8217;s coverage of religions to be even-handed, sensitive and unprejudiced.&#8221; He further adds, &#8220;Our interest is not in comparing the religions per se, but in understanding the differences in editorial choice &#8212; both in the selection of content as well as style, in the scholarly treatment of these religions in Encarta.&#8221;For full details on this long and insightful article, click on &#8220;source&#8221; above. <BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceCHENNAI, INDIA, September 24, 2003: The Hindu community has been looking at the way Hinduism is presented in Microsoft Corporation&#8217;s,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}