On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 10:26 +0530, shiv sastry wrote: > That apart, there is a lot binding the country together. There is a "British > take" that has a tendency to discount the role of the majority Hindu > community in India in actually giving a sense of oneness despite the often > quoted divisive issues (that are a leaf taken out from what the British > described)
most of europe is christian, a higher proportion than india is hindu, and has fewer linguistic divisions than india (including only 3 written scripts) - but there are 30+ countries (yes, despite the "ever closer" Union).
