‘What a cast of characters make their way through this sharp-witted and straight-talking book: the fatuous and the venal, the self-important and the deluded, the exploitative and the corrupt. Edna Fernandes has undertaken to track down figures who epitomise the most depressing facet of Indian life – its holy warriors – as well as some [...]
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The Independent
October 3, 2008 – 9:41 pm
‘Fernandes reports on India’s differences with compelling insight. Holy Warriors makes for vital reading, showing India’s urgent need to rearticulate an inclusive identity, to master change and exceed past glories,’ Read the review at The Independent.
Pick of the Paperbacks, Daily Telegraph
October 3, 2008 – 8:36 pm
‘Witty and incisive, Holy Warriors offers a compelling insight into the imperiled state of India’s secular ideal,’ (Read review at the Telegraph)
Simon Long, Asia Editor, Economist
October 3, 2008 – 8:28 pm
This is a remarkable, brave, moving, disturbing, funny and at times beautiful book. It tackles head-on the great Indian paradox, which most observers tend to ignore or obfuscate: that India is a centre of religion and spirituality, and hence of tolerance, celebrating the many paths available to those seeking the Godhead; yet it has also [...]
Nihal Arthanayake, BBC Radio One DJ
October 3, 2008 – 8:11 pm
‘This is an amazing book. Anyone interested in religions and how they get on – or don’t – should get hold of it.’
Business World
October 3, 2008 – 8:08 pm
‘Excellent…Holy Warriors shows up in all its ugliness the cancer of religious bigotry and intolerance that afflicts all communities – Sikhs, Christians, Hindus and Muslims. It is a vivid and shocking mosaic,’
May 2006 – London School of Economics
October 2, 2008 – 10:10 pm
London School of Economics. A panel discussion on religious fundamentalism in India
