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born 1941 India

Arun Shourie (born 2 November 1941) is a prominent journalist, author, and politician of India.

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Also known as: Shourie, Shourie, Arun, Eminent Historians

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Indian secularism consists of branding others communal.

Arun (2005)

But they are the ones who have been distorting it in the first place – by suppressing the truth, by planting falsehoods.

Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud (1998)

In a word, fatwas are the shariah in action.

But ‘India is just a geographical expression!’

Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud (1998)

He speaks at length, that is, but scarcely touches on any of the specific matters that members had raised.

Self-Deception : India's China Policies; Origins, Premises, Lessons (2008)

Clearly, what our newsmen call 'hard-liners' have been vindicated.

Indian controversies: Essays on religion in politics (1993)

Objective whitewash for objective history. And today if anyone seeks to restore truth to these textbooks, the shout, ‘Communal rewriting of history’.

Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud (1998)

Not an enforced amnesia but an unsparing memory - that is what will build a nation.

"The forfeiture is exactly the sort of thing which has landed us where we are : where intellectual inquiry is shut out ; where our tradition are not examined and reassessed and where as a consequence there is no dialogue."

The view that he disapproves is always unbalanced; or stuck in the past; or stuck in the cold war mould; or subjective and emotional...

Self-Deception : India's China Policies; Origins, Premises, Lessons (2008)

To rely on these fellows to save us from the impending fascist avalanche is to rely on superannuated buffaloes to see us across a minefield.

Symptoms of Fascism (1978)

The first major criticism of the ‘left-liberal’ or ‘progressive’ historians was made by Arun Shourie with special reference to the state of the ICHR in their control.”

Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud (1998)

And anyone who maintains anything to the contrary is a fascist out to insinuate a unity, indeed to impose a uniformity, where there has been none.

Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud (1998)

The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education had issued instructions in 1989 that ‘Muslim rule should never attract any criticism. Destruction of temples by Muslim rulers and invaders should not be mentioned.’

Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud (1998)

Thus, not just whitewash, hogwash too.

Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud (1998)

We comfort ourselves: at least, the virus of reservations has not got into judicial appointments; at least, reservations have not been extended to Muslims and Christians. Both notions are just make-believe.

Falling Over Backwards (2012)

As the State has been successfully bent by Sikh and Muslim communalists over the last decade, double-standards, I would say in some cases duplicity have been the hallmark of the media's treatment of events and issues.

Indian controversies: Essays on religion in politics (1993)

High priority must be given to work among Hindu women, they say, "since they are the custodians of the faith"... (62)

Harvesting our souls: Missionaries, their design, their claims (2000)

Every single Muslim historian of medieval India lists temples which the rulers he is writing about has destroyed and the mosques he has built instead. (429)

Indian controversies: Essays on religion in politics (1993)

With elections upon them, the DMK and its allies announced in Tamil Nadu that, once in office, they will bring forth legislation to give reservations to Muslims and Christians.

Falling Over Backwards (2012)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arun Shourie (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.