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Secularism
by R Vijay Kumar on Aug 27, 2005 03:46 PM

As long as we are defining our thoughts, things, relationships, behaviours, etc etc we will be moving into nowhere. Since 1947 we are doing this and we are where we are today.. Still searching our nation's objective and our methods to achieve that objective. We have to be simple in our definitions.

Let us just look at people as persons (human beings)and not as dalits, minorities, schedule castes, sons of the soil, hindu, musalmaan, parsi, sikh, christian, NRI (this is a new addition), etc etc. IN pre independence India we had 4 as Brahaman, Kshatiya, Vaisya and sudra. In post independent India we have over a dozen classifications. Have we progressed?? NO. To all readers I have to state that "Culturally as a nation we have degraded".

We have missed the bus several times on many issues, economic and social. Let us act to sweep the past and the hangovers from past AND a bold step to treat all indians in India as equals in our thoughts and deeds. We only extend favours and subsidies to those on whom nature has been unjust.




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