Shashi Tharoor’s ‘Why I Am Hindu’ – Book Review

Shashi Tharoor’s cautiously considered rebuttal to the hypothesized Hinduism of the Hindutva ideologues is entitled “Why I Am a Hindu.” It is mostly geared towards Rightist discourse that confuses secularism with being anti-Hindu as well as Hindu nationalism (and by that very logic, anti-national). As Tharoor has plainly...