Revivalism with a Vengeance

Revivalism with a Vengeance Romesh Thapar WHAT terrible crimes are committed in the name of religions devotion. In a land like ours, where the slaughter of cows sparks more intense angers than when prisoners are deliberately blinded, or when thousands of under-trials rot without hope in jails all over the country, or when tens of millions are lost in hunger and deprivation, there is little point in attempting a formal analysis of the cause and effect of every blow-up. This is an over-rated pastime. We've got to get down to the much more serious task of somehow preventing that opium known as 'religion' from disrupting the relationships between our peoples, We are very far from this realisation. We