'Don't Let That Lady Speak!' - PNB and Hindu Calendar Reform

Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet speaking at the overwhelmingly male
First National Conference on Panchanga Ganitam,
Tirumala, India, 24-26 Dec. 2010

Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet's 'A Delegate's REPORT on the First National Conference on Panchanga Ganitam' as well as the paper she presented entitled 'The Importance of Makar Sankranti in Hindu Calendar Reform' are both posted at Puranic Cosmology Updated.

The quote of this post's title was uttered by an unidentified member of the conference while final deliberations were being made on what zero point would be chosen for the Hindu Calendar.

In the picture below, a conference attendee (or perhaps one of the presenters) protests Ms. Norelli-Bachelet's point that 60 Temples in Tamil Nadu celebrated Makar Sankranti (entrance into the sign of Capricorn) on the 2010 Winter Solstice. He claimed that the celebrations in the temples she referred to were Arudhra Darshan, not at all Makar Sankranti. To that Ms. Norelli-Bachelet had only time to reply, 'Your information is wrong.'