Husband Of A Fanatic

Husband of a Fanatic In the summer of 1999, while India and Pakistan were engaged in a war, Amitava Kumar--a Hindu Indian writer living and teaching in the United States--married a Pakistani Muslim woman. That event led to a process of discovery that prompted Kumar to examine the hatreds and intimacies joining Indians and Pakistanis, Hindus and Muslims, fundamentalists and secularists, writers and rioters. In Husband of a Fanatic, Kumar chronicles the entanglements that his new marriage provoked--from ambivalent encounters with family to his disquieting lunch with the amiable bigot who had posted Kumar's name on his internet blacklist of Hindu traitors. Kumar also travels across...