In Confessions of a Secular Fundamentalist Mani Shankar Aiyar crusader for a secular credo calls for an unambiguous and decisive restoration of secularism to the core of our nationhood. In doing so he revisits every dimension of our secular ethos and exposes the various myths perpetuated by communal elements of all hues. Putting under the scanner contentious issues like conversions uniform civil code and Article 370 he nails the falsehood underlying terms like 'pseudo-secularism' 'appeasement' a