I have to be a part of the minority, that has a complaint against the book.
The book tries to establish the concept of identity in various ways and connects it to why the identity could lead to violence. But the tough part was going through the same concept for over several chapters. We all understand that we adopt different identities in different circumstances so i may represent women in a situation, an iyengar or an IIMA grad or a bibliophile or whatever in other situations. Compiling various lectures into a books leads to the kind of repetition that happened here. Each chapter talks of the concept of identity with maybe half a new idea. Became really tedious by the time i got to chapter III. Could have done with more tight editing to avoid the problem.