When we start to read it looks like a heart rending personal life misery, than it transforms into an amazing analysis of Quran, Bible and Hindu scriptures . May be one has to read quran and bible to know the characters like Job. Again he jumps to Mahathma Gandhi's opinion .

It is too frank and I read the first 200 pages in 15 days and the remaining 233 pages in 5 hours during a journey.

Very rarely we come across Indian authors analysing varied subjects and a non fiction interesting.

Arun Shourie delves at length into the eternal question - God or NO God. He does a good job proving his point - albeit he ends up being relatively harsh on the Abrahamic Religions. But then being bound to a book of code, a manual it is easier to draw from them.

Overall a well rounded book, which does put some serious questions on the working of the God (in case the reader believes in the fact that there is one :)).

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This is one best books I have read and this left me wondering how so much can happen to children and there's nothing we can do about these sufferings..

Most well thought out questions and analysis wonderful narration...Hat's off to the writer..

Firstly,this is one of it's kind book from Arun Shourie.His earlier books were on Politics/Court Judgements/Reservations/Secularism etc.This one is Philosophical and attempts to answer the question that each of us sometimes in his/her life has to grapple with:"If there is an omnipresent,all-knowing,compassionate God,why is there so much suffering in this world?"
First Chapter deals with Arun Shourie's personal struggle with such suffering:His son,now 34 years old has been suffering from Cereb...

This book although has a good topic , which could have been written probably in a better way , gets boring in between has not been able to maintain the interest of the reader, mr shori could have done a better job, i have read many of his books this is not at par with the rest. i would give it one and a half .

I found the book pretty good. It discussed the impact/relevance of many religions, not explained aspects of religious texts, the lessons taught by sufferings, and how a person achieves knowledge just to get shattered by the next sufferings....

this book is one of the worst's from this author its totaly waste. THIS author spreads Hatredness only. Its confusing like a mystry from a mysterious author. Dont waste your Brain and Time in readind such books. These books should be banned in India

Simply superb..One must & should read this book to understand how much a cerebral palsy baby's father experince the pain in there life.

Shourie is making a fundamental mistake, in saying that God does not exists because evil exists. Infact it is the other way around. Existence of an objective evil shows that there is an existence objective good. And objective good and evil can come only if God exists.

ofcourse the existence of evil argument have been used in the past by many. Just look at the Eythropo Argument. But this has been proven to be false.


I would also recommend, Letters to a Post-Modern Hindu by Vishal Mangalwa...