Secularism has vanished from India. Secularism means that religious and other beliefs will remain personal to me but for governance, everyone will be equal in all respects.
Today we have caste and religion based parties. RJD, BSP,DMK,BJP, Muslim league and the list goes on. Politics revolves around people of particular religion, caste and creed to consolidate vote bank. They have stopped looking in totality.Congress is banking upon the anger of Patel and Koli community to improve tally in Gujrat.Modi is bent upon to widen the Hindu Muslim divide.
Congress claims to be the biggest torch bearer of secularism. But tell me what do they do. Example Gujrat riot. They put the blame on a particular party and washed off their hands. In other words their job is only restricted to passing a judgement and declaring that we are not responsible. Others are communal.Did they go beyond this point. The answer is a big "NO". The silver lining is that we have some people in our society whise consiousness is alive. Their heart bleeds when they see the Indian societry divided in religious, caste and regional blocks.Teesta is one such example. We have poisoned a good large number of young minds. They nurture hatred towards other community. Secularism is practically dead now. We have to make a new beginning and ensure that our next generation grows with a healthy mind and pure heart in which there is love for all else the turmoil and violence in society will increase.
RE:Let Us Make a Beginning!!
by Cool Dude on Jan 03, 2008 06:18 PM Permalink
Everybody resorts to divide and rule politics. For decades, congress used the muslim vote bank caste politics. Is there any surprise that people will not think of other divide and rule methods - "dalit brahmnin", "majority community" etc. Honestly, we have no good political leaders...most of them seem confined to the business arena. Well, but didn't somebody say that we get the leaders we deserve? Very true.
RE:RE:Let Us Make a Beginning!!
by Tataghata Mukherjee on Jan 03, 2008 12:58 PM Permalink
No little boy! I have heard that Madarasas are for global peace & harmoney.
