advocating the compulsory study of the Bhagavad Gita in schools The conference was organised by the Gujarat Law Society. There have been widespread objections to his statement and rightly so. Both the texts that he so gloriously propounds are identified with Hinduism and to make them compulsory might not be acceptable to adherents of other religions. Then there is the question of whether the Mahabharata is actually such a surfeit of wisdom that Dave makes it out to be. Like all mythological works, it is a matter of interpretation what one derives from it. The Gita, for instance, could be read without nuance by some as just an exhortation to war. Dave sees only unalloyed good coming from it, but that is his personal viewpoint. There is no reason for us to take that as the only valid interpretation. It is quite a relief that he is not the dictator of India.
