"What began to bother me about Nussbaum's trajectory is that she is really not interested in the general issue of "religious violence" and the manner in which religious violence links up with religious sensibilities of one kind or another, whether perpetrated by the left or the right in India. What she is really interested in is mounting a political assault on what she identifies as the âHindu Right,â and in this regard Nussbaum takes no prisoners... Alas, I fear, Martha Nussbaum has yet to resolve that âclash withinâ her own intellectual orientation."
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