Sunday, May 25, 2008

After Selling Himself in the Flesh Market

Arun ShourieArun Shourie is not a historian. He is a mythologist of Hindu communalism. He is a political pornographer," declared one of these eminent historians, K N Panikkar, in Kerala the other day. He had been asked for an answer to the facts I had set out in Eminent Historians. And he was giving reasons why it was beneath his dignity to give one.He had been a little less lofty just a few