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A review by scribepub
Why I Am a Hindu by Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor is the most charming and persuasive writer in India. His new book is a brave and characteristically articulate attempt to save a great and wonderfully elusive religion from the certainties of the fundamentalists and the politicisation of the bigots.
William Dalrymple
[An] important book: it is about the dangers that lie in India’s future as well as the woes and glories of the past.
Financial Times
Tharoor has undoubtedly done an important work that helps people understand key difference between Hinduism and Hindutva.
straight.com
The Hinduism Tharoor proudly asserts and defends is universalist, liberal, and syncretic ... this deeply informative book is a must-read for Americans interested in Hinduism and the world’s largest democracy. STARRED REVIEW
Booklist
A thoughtful celebration of Hinduism as a potentially unifying force.
Kirkus
A profound book on one of the world's oldest and greatest religions.
Hindustan Times
At one point in Orhan Pamuk’s perceptive novel Snow, the protagonist Ka highlights the supreme paradox of religious mobilisation in his part of the world. Defenders of militant Islam draw upon religious vocabularies to justify their politics, without once mentioning God or faith. It is precisely the distinction between politics in the name of religion, and faith, that Shashi Tharoor in this rather charming book on Hinduism and Hindutva seeks to emphasise.<.i>
The Hindu
William Dalrymple
[An] important book: it is about the dangers that lie in India’s future as well as the woes and glories of the past.
Financial Times
Tharoor has undoubtedly done an important work that helps people understand key difference between Hinduism and Hindutva.
straight.com
The Hinduism Tharoor proudly asserts and defends is universalist, liberal, and syncretic ... this deeply informative book is a must-read for Americans interested in Hinduism and the world’s largest democracy. STARRED REVIEW
Booklist
A thoughtful celebration of Hinduism as a potentially unifying force.
Kirkus
A profound book on one of the world's oldest and greatest religions.
Hindustan Times
At one point in Orhan Pamuk’s perceptive novel Snow, the protagonist Ka highlights the supreme paradox of religious mobilisation in his part of the world. Defenders of militant Islam draw upon religious vocabularies to justify their politics, without once mentioning God or faith. It is precisely the distinction between politics in the name of religion, and faith, that Shashi Tharoor in this rather charming book on Hinduism and Hindutva seeks to emphasise.<.i>
The Hindu