The Twice-Born review: Aatish Taseer tries to eulogise Brahminical culture

This book, as Taseer explains in the very first chapter, was a product of his father and Pakistani politician Salmaan Taseer's assassination in January 2011

In an interview to Mumbai Mirror in November last year, Aatish Taseer declared: “The story of Brahmins cannot simply be the story of Dalit oppression.” He was answering a question on what reaction he expected from “liberal” readers of the book under review who imagined Brahmins to be purveyors of caste oppression. Taseer went on to explain that in his book, he had tried to eschew the popular opinion about upper castes: “It’s a wicked political lie to make them seem like an undifferentiated upper class.” One wonders if Prime Minister Narendra Modi read this book; if he did, he