You might find this letter on other blogs and sites. As I am not sure about where it was orginally published I am linking to the blog where I first found it. One of the more memorable arguments Vijay Prashad, Professor and Director of International Studies at Trinity College, Hartford, makes in the letter is that: Hindutva attempts to do to the richness and diversity of Hindu heritage, what agri-business does to bio-diversity. An excerpt from the Letter to a Young American Hindu By Vijay Prashad :

In 1992, the Anthropological Society of India published the first of an ongoing series of monographs with the omnibus title, The People of India. In this volume, the late K. S. Singh laid out the basic findings of this immense study of the Indian people. There are, he wrote, 4635 identifiable communities in India, “diverse in biological traits, dress, language, forms of worship, occupation, food habits, and kinship patterns. It is all these communities who in their essential ways of life express our national popular life.” Strikingly, the scholars working under Singh’s direction discovered the immense overlap across religious lines. They identified 775 traits that related to ecology, settlement, identity, food habits, marriage patterns, social customs, social organization, economy and occupation. What they found was that Hindus share 96.77% traits with Muslims, 91.19% with Buddhists, 88.99% with Sikhs, 77.46% with Jains (Muslims, in turn, share 91.18% with Buddhists and 89.95% with Sikhs). Because of this, Singh pointed out that Indian society was like a “honeycomb,” where each community is in constant and meaningful interaction with every other community.

At Scarlet Guju, Pranav subjects the letter to some critical examination:

What I am against is giving Hinduism a free pass simply because it has, like all religions, a liberal aspect. While we can always find the right verses (say, from the Gita on the universality of religion), the positive interpretations (like a version of the Ekalavya story my partner just told me about), and positive struggles within Hinduism (the bhakti movement etc.), the left has to separate the idea of exposing the lies of Hindutva from the notion that we have to revive liberal versions of Hinduism.