I've always felt like I haven't given anything back to India after all that she had given me, just soaked up all the wonderful stories and told them to Americans. Now at last I feel that I have contributed something to India, sharing with them stories that many of them know but many of them do not, and sharing an approach to the history of the Hindus that highlights things that are usually ignored.

About her contributions to India. - Q&A with Wendy Doniger, the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor and author of The Hindus