It was very amusing to watch the ruckus around the treatment of Shilpa Shetty in the TV reality show Celebrity Big Brother. Even more amusing is the reaction in India.

I was born a Hindu, but that is as far as I am willing to go in choosing my identity on the basis of religion.

A lot of Indians, especially the "educated" Hindus with comfortable incomes and access to the internet, are deluding themselves into imagining that they are defending India and Hindu culture. They have fully and thoroughly succumbed to the right wing, fascist ideology.