TWO SAINTS
Speculations around and about Ramakrishna Paramahansa & Ramana Maharshi
Author: Arun Shourie
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 481
Price: Rs 699
If his time as a minister in the last Bharatiya Janata Party government led you to believe that Arun Shourie was a fully paid-up member of the Hindutva project, think again. This thoughtful and well-researched book suggests that far from being a Hindutva-type, Shourie is actually a sceptic about most religions. And the one that comes closest to satisfying him is Buddhism, not Hinduism.
Two Saints has personal origins. Shourie’s last book Does He Know a Mother’s Heart: How Suffering Refutes Religions, came