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'Secularism'
by Lavanya Nair on Aug 27, 2005 12:53 PM


I agree with Mr. Ram to an extent where he says that all religions must be treated equally but felt that he was contradicting his own statement when he said that it is something like perfection which can be worked for but never achieved. The term 'secularism' has been literally abused in our country by power mongers in order to secure their 'seats'. In the so called developed nations minority communities do enjoy most of the rights but not at the cost of the majority's interests because that would mean negation of democracy, the essence of which is 'what majority wants'. It is in the best interest of the nation to have multi-cultural society but at the same time respect for the majority's sentiments and feelings cannot be and should not be ignored and that is the essence of democracy.

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Who needs secularism?