Authors of our constitution, while drafting the outlines for our constitution had dreamt of a strong and leading nation. Indians are always obsessed with ‘Ram Rajya’ (राम राज्य )
Independence opened the doors to convert the dream millions in to reality.
Before the British, India (Hindustan) was never really under any one ruler. Apart from local kings, we had number of Mughal invaders. When the Mughals had become weak and the local rulers were fighting for their existence we had British and, Portuguese.
An average Indian was exposed to (or some times compelled to follow) traditions and cultures alien to him/her.
The authors were well aware of the fact that two persons who are practicing same Ism might have two different traditions!
The authors were equipped with one invisible thread. The name was Nationalism. The task was to tie 50 crore people with different culture and tradition with this invisible thread!
60 years back, every single Indian could feel this nationality tied tightly around them. The same nationality had brought India to the door of independence, which opened in to the house of democracy.
The authors thought that the same nationality can keep all this diversified Indians together if they are given a free atmosphere to practice their choice of Ism.
The soul of India is हिन्दुइस्म. It should not be difficult for an Indian to practice secularism. It is in his/her blood. (See my blog ‘Hindu versus secular’ )
Thats the reason why the committee dint include the word secular in the preamble of our constitution. By not adding the word they in fact had taken the right step towards secularism. (Its notable that they dint declare India as a Hindu nation.)
But what the constitution authors’ didn’t realize was the fact that those 2 decades of British rule has contaminated our politicians also. They dint realize that this ‘secular’ stand could prompt our politicians to revoke the British’s ‘divide and rule’ policy.
After 60 years of independence, India is more divided than ever. Politicians are safeguarding terrorist outfits in the name of secularism. On an account of this India has become the most bombed country. Terrorist outfits are growing like mushrooms. It’s shocking to know that even some medical students are involved in this activity.
The worst part is decades of negligence are giving way to Hindu extremism.
We the citizens are also equally responsible for this situation. Nationality is relevant for us only on 15 Aug and 26 Jan. Rest of the days we forget that we are Indians.
We all condemn police and the government officers when others bribe them. But when it comes to us, we are the first to offer them the bribe. We all criticize a politician for all his miss deeds and at elections we vote to the same follow just because he/she is of our cast!
The bottom line is “We the citizens of India (specially the politicians) have worked over night for sixty years to defeat the basic idea of secularism in our constitution.”
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