Vamsee Juluri's Rearming Hinduism [...]We Hindus do not claim to be perfect. In fact, we are as flawed as anyone. We are not, as we are accused of being, ‘exceptionalists.’ We have a very human understanding of ourselves, and others. The fact is that we have lived with diversity for very long, historically speaking. Our views are cosmopolitan in some ways, and intolerant and clannish in others. However, there is an essential difference between the social and political ideologies about other people and groups that modern Hindus have, and the deeper, older, ever-evolving sensibilities about the divine that Hindus also have. For example, a modern, educated, middle class Hindu, when asked about the reason for poverty India, might respond that a poor person is poor because of population, or government corruption, or even something racial, like genetic lack in intelligence (this seems less, informally speaking, these days). These ideas come, not from Hinduism, but respectively, from Malthusian Development discourses, Neo-liberalism, and Colonial-era social Darwinism and racism, borrowed into terms of caste.