I haven't read Hitchens though I can say the few times I've seen interviews with him, he has impressed me with his "...evident desire of offending and insulting..." and I can't help but feel his arrogance and his, "...selfish disdain for the feelings of others."
I think he can't help but sound arrogant, he has the plummiest upper class English accent of all time :P But remember that stuff about ignoring the message because you don't like the tone? ;) The Gandhi and independence thing is viewed very differently over here (perhaps as you might expect), but there are many people who think that Indian independence would actually have happened sooner and more peacefully, with less fractious partition, if Gandhi had not done his thing. For more info I would have to refer you to my friend the_hat, and I do really recommend Hitchens.
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I think he can't help but sound arrogant, he has the plummiest upper class English accent of all time :P But remember that stuff about ignoring the message because you don't like the tone? ;)
The Gandhi and independence thing is viewed very differently over here (perhaps as you might expect), but there are many people who think that Indian independence would actually have happened sooner and more peacefully, with less fractious partition, if Gandhi had not done his thing. For more info I would have to refer you to my friend