Pick Secularism Drop Communalism
Bhat Mujtaba Gurezi India is a country very vast in diversity, with a large population living in a socio cultural mileau where everything is inter mingled. Right from the ancient times we have seen streams of culture coming into india adding their flavour to the very social, cultural, behavioural and emotional thread of India. This age old mingling and churning of ideas, beliefs, values and mores have given birth to the sociological, political, economic, cultural principles and functions in India. In this synthesis the two giant principles of secularism and communalism have walked shoulder to shoulder. Going back to the times of India’s independence struggle, when partition was inevitable, the history is there how communal frenzy broke out. The ‘communal monster’ called by Jinnah destroyed the inter community compatibilities and secular tendencies developed by people of India long time before. But after independence the collective and pragmatic efforts put together by the lead...