One of the lessons you learn from history is that history sometimes teaches the wrong lessons. - Shashi Tharoor

While he was alive, he was impossible to ignore; once he had gone, he was impossible to imitate.

Hinduism as a faith might espouse tolerance, this does not necessarily mean that all Hindus behave tolerantly.

the word ‘Hindu’ did not exist in any Indian language till its use by foreigners gave Indians a term for self-definition. Hindus, in other words, call themselves by a label that they didn’t invent themselves in any of their own languages, but adopted cheerfully when others began to refer to them by that word. (Of course, many prefer a different term altogether — Sanatana Dharma,