Defend Hinduism, quote Karl Popper if not Savarkar: Harsh Gupta Madhusudan tells Shashi Tharoor

At Business Today's summit on Friday, author Harsh Gupta Madhusudan, during a debate, told Congress MP Shashi Tharoor to quote Karl Popper to defend Hinduism if he was not comfortable with Savarkar.

Investor and author Harsh Gupta Madhusudan launched a passionate rebuttal to Congress's Nazi Germany comparison during a debate with MP Shashi Tharoor at Business Today's India@100 Economy Summit on Friday.

Harsh Gupta Madhusudan quoted Shashi Tharoor himself to state that Hinduism has no one founder, no one prophet, no one holy book, no one god, and no one way of praying.

"Shashi Tharoor believes in Hindu exceptionalism. You have to defend Hinduism. You can quote Karl Popper if you are not okay with Savarkar," he said, referring to the philosopher's idea that in order to remain a tolerant society, one must be intolerant of intolerance.

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"There are comparisons between India and Nazi Germany, but I don't remember Jews going out on the streets saying they would behead Gentiles [non-Jews]. Liberal Muslims and reformist Muslims who stood for free speech in the Charlie Hebdo case and the Nupur Sharma case were beaten by Muslims, and both BJP and non-BJP governments let them go. They rot in jail, or are in hiding. This is a collective failure. The Indian state has let go of the minority within the minority," Madhusudan said.