The only way to resist

And, again from the same book by Tiziano Terzani, I quote:

Vivekananda, the great Indian mystic, travelled at the end of the 19th century to the United States to make Hinduism known. In San Francisco, at the end of one of his lectures, an American lady stood up and asked him, "Don't you think the world would be more beautiful if there was only one religion for all men?" "No," Vivekananda replied. "Perhaps it would be even more beautiful if there were as many religions as there are men."

But I could quote many other sentences from this book. Letters against the war was born out of Terzani's need to give his point of view on the events of 11 September 2001, but it starts from very far away and goes even further: it tells well about Pakistan, Afghanistan and what happened after the attack on the Twin Towers; it also tells, to a certain extent, what is happening today.

I happened to read it just after finishing another book that I highly recommend: Confessions of an Economic Hitman. The two books complement and compensate each other and many of the facts recounted reverberate from one to the other.