After careful consideration of the feedback we’ve received from devotees who read and appreciate our website, we decided to change our submission policy.
From now on, anonymous articles will not be eligible for publication on Akincana Gocara, except under some special circumstances that were detailed in our submission policy. This is done so that the authors themselves may be legally liable for their own submissions, rather than the editors. It also aims to make it easier for readers to send their concerns and inquiries directly to those who are responsible for the articles.
Anonymous articles that were recently published may have been taken down from our website. We encourage their authors to send them again for publication under their true identities.
We have also included a section about right of reply under our new submission policy. Anybody who is mentioned in any of our articles has a right to send us his reply. The reply will be published without any modifications and with the same amount of visibility as the article in which the person was originally mentioned.
We hope these changes will bring our humble endeavor closer to its purpose stated on our About page:
We would like to see “Akincana Gocara” as the voice of the second generation of ISKCON. There are some sites which hold a more official slant, some are on the fringe, some are boring and yet others too outspoken. “Akincana Gocara” is meant to narrow the gap between them with a truthful but modest, and straightforward but honest presentation of issues in Krsna consciousness. It is our belief that all philosophical, cultural and social issues should be dealt with, because negligence or reluctance to properly address them, leads not to unity in diversity, but to disunity and perversity. Still, discussions on controversial issues should be led in a spirit of respect and humility, never forgetting the words of guru, sadhu and sastra.
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Great way to kill off submissions. There are plenty of good reasons not to use your own name one of them being that it is the ideas that matter not the author. That way you avoid "oh that is written by X and he is a nut job I wont read it." Seems you need to get a new editorial board to make a new policy.
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati would rather tell us that it is the author that matter, not the ideas. In his own words, he said:
"I don't read books, I read the author. I first see the author to see if he's authentic or not. I am a proof reader. I always see what is right and what is wrong. My father trained me in proofreading, but I am not only a proofreader of the press. I am a proofreader of the world. I proofread men: I see their faults and try to correct them. I am a proofreader of religion also. I have appeared in the karkata lagna (astrologically), so whenever I see anything undevotional I will act like a karkata (a crab). If I see any so-called devotion which is not actually in the true unalloyed spirit, I shall pierce it."
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati would rather tell us that it is the author that matter, not the ideas. In his own words, he said:
"I don't read books, I read the author. I first see the author to see if he's authentic or not. I am a proof reader. I always see what is right and what is wrong. My father trained me in proofreading, but I am not only a proofreader of the press. I am a proofreader of the world. I proofread men: I see their faults and try to correct them. I am a proofreader of religion also. I have appeared in the karkata lagna (astrologically), so whenever I see anything undevotional I will act like a karkata (a crab). If I see any so-called devotion which is not actually in the true unalloyed spirit, I shall pierce it."
Did Srila Prabhupada ever preach anonymously or instruct his disciples to do so? Did any of the previous acharyas engage in such behavior? The answer to all these questions is no. So why should we do it?
You would not know if he did now would you. Anyway, I wont submit anything anymore.