Guha has brilliantly analysed the unity of India and gives credit to the foresight of the founding fathers.He misses one unique aspect of india'culture from times immemorial.india was one when a Keralite Shankaracharya travelled from Badrinath to Kankyakumari and established four centers of excellence in the four cornersof India.India was one when the scholars of Kashi held discourses in the same langusge with the scholars of Kochi in he south.India has been one becoz of its Vedic(hindu) ethos.It is secular not becoz of Nehru or Gandhi but becoz of a history of thousands of years of tolerance and democratic freedom to say what a Rishi or a saint wanted to say in Bengal or Tamilnadu.It never persecuted the worshippers coming from faroff places like christians,Parsees or muslims.The founding fathers ere imbued with these ideals from the hoary past. Dinesh
