"Every Hindu may not be conscious of the finer points of his faith, but he has been raised in the tradition of its ass…"

"I do not look to history to absolve my country of the need to do things right today. Rather I seek to understand the …"

"No Indian nationalist leader ever needed to say: We have created India; now all we need to do is to create Indians."

"We all have multiple identities in India; we are all minorities in India. Our heterogeneity is definitional."

"Pluralist India must, by definition, tolerate plural expressions of its many identities."

"India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and …"

""It was as if he had heard what I wanted," she said. But a skilled magician can do that, and it would be wrong to see…"

"The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts."

"What is most important to me is Jawaharlal Nehru's idea of India, India as a pluralist society and polity, an idea wh…"

"To speak of Hindu fundamentalism, is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals. To …"