The book has been very categorically divided into three parts. The first one titled "My Hinduism" deals with the million facets of it's history and the 'my' emphasizes and rightly so, that every one has their own version and that this flexibility exists, has helped it to survive. The second part deals with the political dimensions. It puts across the facts of the case very bluntly and the reader then has the choice to go either way. It helps to understand the difference between several terms which are used interchangeably by several. And the last part discusses a possible redemption from all that has gone wrong. A wonderful read for an insight on what it means to be a Hindu and what is Hinduism. I close by quoting the author when he talks about wrongs of fundamentalism.
"Survival is the best revenge, rather than reprisal; undoing the wrongs of a different era through new wrongs in a different context only compounds the original sin. Large, eclectic, agglomerative, the Hinduism that i know understands that faith is a matter of hearts and minds, not bricks and stone".
"Survival is the best revenge, rather than reprisal; undoing the wrongs of a different era through new wrongs in a different context only compounds the original sin. Large, eclectic, agglomerative, the Hinduism that i know understands that faith is a matter of hearts and minds, not bricks and stone".
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