New Delhi, Aug. 14 -- There is this story that the scholar Wendy Doniger recounts in her new memoir, For the Love of Stories: Confessions of an Accidental Feminist. She and Sanskritist Robert P. Goldman had an old enmity: he "loathed me and made my life in that department hell," she writes of her time at the University of California at Berkeley. Some four decades later, Doniger finds her retribution. Now she is well-ensconced at the University of Chicago in a triple-departmental appointment with the Divinity School, and the departments of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Social Thought. When she is invited to review Goldman's single-volume translation of the Ramayana (the full, seven-volume set had been published some years ea...