About the Book: The Paradoxes of Indias Politics
Politics in india is full of paradoxes, and caste, community, education, all
civil society matters are subject to intense politics, which is very often so
quixotic that it is not funny. India is the only country in the world that has
practiced toleration for thousands of years and, at the same time, runs a
successful democracy today. This makes toleration a sine qua non of democracy; a
proposition which applies to all real practitioners of this free system of
government. Pakistan, an Islamic country, is home today to 203 million Muslims,
India, a 'secular state is home to