Secularism
It was just about a couple of months back the Bhoomi Poojan of the biggest Ram Mandir was held at Ayodhya. I, as a Hindu, was extremely happy for the start of its construction and so was most of the country. What I didn't like about it was people making this religious and peaceful thing into a social media Hindu vs Muslim fight. And those tweets were absolutely pathetic. You may be celebrating that event or not, but those words on such a religious event was just pitiful. And that sparked a question in me. Is secularism dying in India? Secularism is marked by mainly two major features. First, critical respect for all religions. Unlike some countries, ours is not blindly anti-religious but respects religion. India is neither like one of those who is a pre-dominantly single religious societies, it respects not one but all religions. But again, it’s practically impossible to distinguish the religious from the social, as the Great B.R. Ambedkar famously observed, every aspect of ...
