Bravo....An article written with simplicity and clarity yet profound in its powerful message to all of us. I left India almost 30 years ago and today more than ever before miss and yearn for the wonderfully fragrant, flavourful and far reaching diversity that is my heritage...Mother India. Frank Cherian-USA
I felt I am writing this article. I am in America and now realise the beauty in diversity in India, simply amazing and stupendous. Where else would you find the religions melting into culture like in sufism. I would recommend everyone reading the book " Return of the Aryans" by Gidwani, it opened my eyes in terms of how we became so liberal, our culture so evolving.....tribute to the nation...mera bharat Mahaan.....lets bring this into practice....and we wil be there. At this moment I remember the words to Rabindra Nath Tagore.
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action--- Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
I am pleased to read a well written, sensible blog after quite some time. Hope people start understanding the uniqueness of this diversity, enjoy it, take pride in it and preserve it. Thanks Ravi
Mr.Dashrathi's comments were a delight to read; his views should gain a greater readership. I have long had a deep love-hate relationship with my homeland, though I have been "absent" a long time. We are a wonderfully tolerant and compassionate people, yet are too often brainlessly violent. Though it is true that such violence is the work of a minute fraction of our people, the problem is that it only takes one match to ignite a forest fire. We seem to wear our differences too close to our hearts;historically we have lived in greater peace than modern times have witnessed. That is a pity. I look for hopeful signs, and am only mildly optimistic. A terrible irony is that the homeland of Mahatma Gandhi, Gujerat, is also today the cess-pool of communal hatred. It is strange, as after all, the homeland of Jesus is the scene of some of the worst violence of our times. A.Buch
