“Two years ago. Still relevant!” the post was captioned tagging an old tweet that read, “An interesting, though incomplete, comparative table doing the rounds. #HinduismVsHindutva.”
Fifteen months ago I gave a web talk at the @HTLGIFestival on the future of India’s secular liberalism. It still ho… https://t.co/KQwQc5QToK
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) 1640738751000
Hindutva as characterized in the post shared by Tharoor states: “Hindutva is monolithic. In that, it is more like Islam and Christianity than Hinduism,” while “Hinduism is pluralistic. It is a union of many ways of life.”
The post also stated that “Hindutva is a homogeneous racial-territorial category propagated by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar” while “Hinduism is a great union of various Indian cultures and traditions, with diverse roots and no founder.”
This post by Tharoor comes at a time when incidents of hate speech against a particular community have been reported during ‘Dharam Sansad’ in Uttarakhand’s Haridwar.
Police have informed that some people have been booked in connection with alleged hate speeches against a particular community in Haridwar during a three-day Dharma Sansad, held from December 17-19 in the city.