Unity in diversity. Sounds great! This statement however seems to be set to lose its integrity. India, a relatively young nation, formed 50 years back, is still long-way from making its roots firmly hold-on to the ground. The conception of India, which itself is a controversy for some to keep on the abysmal debate on its legitimacy. India was not just born free of a foreign rule, but was born out of a partition. The partition that was so cleverly orchestrated by the foreign rulers; it is doing wonders even today. But we can give them the benefit of doubt. For how would those simple brains have had the capacity to envision the hell that would break loose after the partition?
There were other thinkers who did not think the partition to be the right way going forward to solve any crisis. But as history has shown time and again, the goods are always out weighted. As a result, the efforts to keep the country undivided didn’t yield fruits. There were lots of angry protests demanding the partition. To end the turmoil that had thus spun, the decision was made to finally execute the partition. This decision was sub-consciously going to become the first step in entering the ‘Chakra viewe’ (a spiral like formation in old time war strategies that you can enter easily, but have no way out; and thus get trapped). The partitioning of Hindustan into India and Pakistan though intended to solve all the problems backfired. More sadly, it didn’t back fire in all so evident manner, but in a more subtle and dispersed manner. Worst, it backfired more in the land that was parent to the partition.
The decision to proclaim the partition, when viewed today the experienced eyes, appears like another example where four wise pundits wandering in the wild discovered a skeleton of a tiger and decided to bring it back to life using their knowledge. But only to be killed by the new reborn hungry tiger, who once getting his life back, preyed on the four pundits with his natural instinct. Conclusion? Well, having enormous knowledge is a good thing only when it is supplemented with enough wisdom of knowing where to and, where not to apply it.
And yet, this is exactly what happened to the holy nation. Things were not bad even then. But no, they decided to make yet another blunder. The partition had happened because the Muslims, who were in minority, demanded a separate country where they could exercise their…. whatever. Now, when it is said Muslims were in minority, it implicitly meant that the Hindus were in majority. But as this was so damn obvious and implicit, the wise men (and the women) decided to ignore this fact. One nation was named rightly as a Muslim country. But not so evidently enough, the other nation was not named a Hindu country. Why? I think the reason behind this lies in the history, both the written and the un-written. The reasons we shall dwell upon at a later moment. The second nation, which had majority of Hindu’s, was named secular. Wow. Any sane person would think that if one were declared a Muslim nation, the other would be declared a Hindu nation!
The definition of that magic word ‘secular’ is spiritually speaking of higher values. But, the wise men on that committee did not realize the difference between ruling a bunch of holy spiritual men and that of ruling a few billion ordinary, illiterate, power and cash hungry, starving men and women. (This is not the definition for Indians alone, but this is what all the people on this planet are collectively best described as.) The rulers of the country, or the men in the parliament, or whatever and however they are comprised, stupidly believed that the masses would accept the term secular and live by its true meaning. Forget expecting the nation to accept and live with the definition of secularism. There own congressmen, members of the parliament, rulers of the states, used, misused and abused the term ‘secular’ for their own selfish benefits. There are thousands that are saying secular India is a joke, another thousands are so naive as to be resorting to blame certain political parties as threat to secular India.
It is indeed very good to treat people of all religions and castes as equal, presenting them equal opportunities. That’s being secular. And that’s being very nice and developed, and praiseworthy. But, ha ha ha! Indian politicians and lawmakers are not even close to deserve this kind of praise. They are men of lesser virtues, filled with worldly desires, selfish fetish, disgrace to being Hindus, less Indians, less humans. The country has different law for the majorities as to that of the minorities. Look at the irony, in a secular country they have managed to define terms of majority and minority based on their religions. 50 years past independence, and the country still does not have one uniform law for anybody and everybody. They have reservations for minorities; they have reservations for people from lower caste. Well, they still continue to distinguish between two people based on their caste.
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