On Wednesday 23 Jan 2008 5:54 pm, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote: > so? there are lots of commonalities among indians.
Lots of commonalities among Indians. Does that not also mean that there are lots of commonalities between Hindus, who form a huge majority in India? Is it that difficult to say? Incidentally what was historically India is still not one united nation. The minute the British left it was broken into two pieces, India and Pakistan. Now it's 3 pieces. So no historic rule about India "never having been one nation" is being violated by truncated modern India being a united country. It is still in several pieces. Let us not get fooled by the fact that two of the parts of Indian have a name that is not "India". And the 65% fragment of Imperial India that the British had united now remains united, thanks in no small measure to the collective desire for unity by a vast majority of the population. And a vast majority of the unity seekers happen to be Hindus. Would it "destroy the secular fabric of India" to say that? This is not saying that Muslims and others do not seek unity, But once again - do not forget that a large part of anything that represents India be it poverty, distress, malnutrition or progress, has a Hindu signature. Why do some people find it so difficult to get that past their lips. Is there a lurking fear that non Hindus will give up and run away if Hindus are given any credit for anything positive? Or if Hindus for a minute stop self flagellation and grovelling admission and responsibility for all of India's gigantic problems? shiv
