The author notes "at the level of popular culture, India and the west may meet as equals, but at the deeper levels, where the core assumptions of a civilization reside, the playing field is tilted." This chapter explains how India is different from the west and how this difference is often ignored and underestimated. As the author himself acknowledges – "I am simply using the dharmic perspective to reverse the analytical gaze which normally goes from West to East and unconsciously privileges the former". This, in my view, is a challenging task in itself due to the lack of scholarship in this area. The basic idea of this book is to look at the west (comprising of America and Europe) through the dharmic framework. I have written the summary – chapter wise and every chapter – concept wise, often by linking different portions of the book into concepts. The following is a summary of Rajiv Malhotra's latest book "Being Different" Re: Congress Politics : Communalism North East
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