ABSTRACT
With the bombing of the World Trade Centre and the warsin Afghanistan and Iraq, Huntington’s fault lines seem tohave become a self-fulfilling prophecy spurred on as they are by the will to empire.1 In the South Asian subcontinent, nationalist imaginaries have become viciously real in the last decade as the cities of its nation-states are cleaved into a myriad partitions, signifying otherness. Even as the contemporary globe seems pervaded by
boundaries, fabricated and otherwise, at no time has there been greater interest in the blurring, transgression, and, indeed, defiance of religious boundaries, in the dissent within religious traditions and the dialogues between them both on the part of theologians and as a constituent of everyday life. This is a relatively new interest but an extremely important one.
