Shashi Tharoor served for twenty-nine years at the UN, culminating as Under-Secretary-General. He is a Congress MP in India, the author of fourteen previous books, and has won numerous literary awards, including a Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Tharoor has a PhD from the Fletcher School, and was named by the World Economic Forum in Davos in 1998 as a Global Leader of Tomorrow.
"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 Reviews
"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 politicization 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...one of India's
most articulate liberals and a leading voice of those who reject
the aggressively fundamentalist strains of Hindu nationalism."
-Financial Times
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