Confessions of a secular fundamentalist
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Confessions of a secular fundamentalist
Penguin Books, 2006, c2004
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"First published in Viking by Penguin Books India 2004" -- t.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-282) and index
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Ever since the Babri Masjid dispute in 1986, the debate over secularism and communalism has been revived in all its sound and fury. It now occupies centre stage in our public discourse. In "Confessions of a Secular Fundamentalist", Mani Shankar Aiyar, crusader for a secular credo, calls for an unambiguous and decisive restoration of secularism to the core of our nationhood. In doing so, he revisits every dimension of our secular ethos and exposes the various myths perpetuated by communal elements of all hues. Putting under the scanner contentious issues like conversions, uniform civil code and Article 370, he nails the falsehood underlying terms like 'pseudo-secularism', 'appeasement' and 'soft Hindutva'. And he places the domestic debate over secularism in India in the wider external dimension by discussing the experiences of countries like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Israel and erstwhile Yugoslavia. Admitting to wearing his secularism on his sleeve, Aiyar reasons that only a determined and inflexible adherence to secularism can counter religious bigotry and fundamentalism.
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