In January 1994, Arun Shourie, the noted journalist and scholar, was invited by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) to present a “Hindu assessment” of missionary work in India. But unfortunately for-the managers of this “dialogue”, it went out of hand and misfired.

Ever since, the giant Christian establishment in India has been smarting with the hurt which Arun Shourie has caused. The uproar he has raised can be compared only with the uproar which had followed the publication of K. M. Panikkars’ Asia and Western Dominance in 1953.

Missiology has been mobilizing its arsenal of apologetics and polemics in order to control the damage that has been done to Christian claims and pretensions.
Here was a Hindu, who was a man of stature, and known for his scholarship as well as pronounced sympathy for Hindu causes.

[Missionaries] dismisses Arun Shourie by pigeon-holing him as ‘postmodern’. Scholars like Arun Shourie [who serves Sanatana Dharma] belong neither to the past, nor to the present, nor yet to the future. They belong to a timeless span.

- Sita Ram Goel