A few God Men

Arun Shourie cogently dissects the 'mystical' experiences of the Paramhansa and the Maharshi

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