Why I am a Hindu

by Shashi Tharoor

(of the kind that comes with the discovery of rationality and goes with an acknowledgement of its limitations).

(though she usually replaces Buddhi—perhaps making the point that you can have either brains or wealth but not both!)

‘As a Hindu, if you are a good economist in this life, you come back in the next as a physicist. If you are a bad economist in this life, you come back in the next as a sociologist.’)