The intolerant Indian – by Gautam Adhikari - Part 1
I picked up the book Intolerant Indian by Gautam Adhikari from Bangalore airport some months back, and finished reading the book in a couple of weeks. From then, I was considering noting down my thoughts on this book. The book covered a topic that is very interesting to me, which is why I picked it up from the bookshop in the first place. It raised a lot more questions than providing answers, which was not really a bad thing. But the book did not leave me better equipped to analyze these questions, which according to me, was a bad thing. So I decided to do that preparation myself. Here I am sharing most of my thoughts with you, as I went through it. It might be that my brain is too simplistic that I needed further assistance. Those of you who have a better IQ than me (which means most of the world) might find these points too trivial. Before we discuss the intolerance of Indians, it is important to answer some fundamental questions. Why it is important to be tolerant for democrac...