Where did it all Start?

In a time when half the world is filled with anger and wants to tame a rather inhuman behaviour of some of our fellow humans, its the need of the hour to maintain solidarity and remain united to pass through these unfortunate hours.

Being an Indian, one has the unique privilege of claiming oneself a truly secular human on earth - of course with the mind and heart willing to do so. Its so unfortunate to see the rise of intolerance amongst us, wanting to claim blood for blood and willing to talk without heart. One has to remember that pointing fingers at a particular community for every other blast that happens in the country is detrimental to the secular state of India. We need to see people beyond their religion,language and any other communal label that is attached to them. In India, everybody has the right to practice their own religion and enhance their own culture or disagree with opinions - that is what is true democracy. Deep inside we know who the real culprits are and if one has to list them down, one would see that there are no reservations there , with people cutting across religions, languages have equal hand in everything.

When ever a politician stands up and speaks about being Secular - he's considered as targeting the so called minority votes, in my opinion , hes the most responsible social citizen of the nation. I am tempted to think back and see when did all this Start?
It is pretty simple to think it all started on December 6th 1992 with Hindu Nationalists destroying a Mosque in Ayodhya despite a commitment to the supreme court that the mosque would not be harmed. My Nation was peaceful till that day and what followed from December 6th 1992 is just a kid fight between 2 groups which are not fit to call themselves the "race with the sixth sense". India is not a nation of Hindus, its a nation of Indians - it might sound cliched and that's the very problem that it still remains a cliche to many minds in India. No one wants to believe that there is no minority, everyone wants to think that we, the Hindus ought to have a upper hand in all that's Indian.

What is more devastating is that, with the increase in terror, the increase in the Hindu extremists and the existence of Political parties based on castes along with acts of people gaining popularity by favoring a particular Language - all this happening in India , a land which was once filled with Peace and Joy inspite of being relatively less developed. We have bought ourselves some really harmful possessions which could take the country back to the days of Adam and Eve and in my opinion , these harmful outfits are only growing by the day.

What do we have now?

1. Shiv Sena - A political party favoring the influence of Marathis in Maharashtra, lately famous for wanting to evict "North Indians" out of Mumbai. The Shiv Sena claims the members are willing to sacrifice their lives for what they believe is India's rightful existence as a Hindu nation.
Shiv Sena is a shame to the nation in my opinion.

2. PMK - Pattali Makkal Katchi : A Party founded, formed and works for a Caste in Tamil Nadu. The PMK founder is Dr. S. Ramdoss and the president is G.K. Mani. Ramdoss had earlier worked with the Vanniyar Sangham (Vanniyar Union) founded by him in 1980. PMK is based on a caste, an OBC community. PMK has advocated the bifurcation of the state of Tamil Nadu, a proposal that was seen as a casteist line.
The very existence of this party to me means India is back to the days of 1700s.

3. J&K issue: The mother of all issues which we have today. The pakistani terrorists have been troubling the Nation for decades claiming Kashmir to be theirs and its a shame that after 60 years of independence we still don't have a solution to the problem.

4. Naxalites: Naxalite or Naxalism is an informal name given to communist - groups that were born out of the Sino-Soviet split in the Indian communist movement. Ideologically they belong to various trends of Maoism. Initially the movement had its centre in West Bengal. In recent years, they have spread into less developed areas of rural central and eastern India, such as Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh through the activities of underground groups like the Communist Party of India (Maoist) The CPI (Maoist) and some other Naxal factions are considered terrorists by the Government of India and various state governments in India.

5. LTTE: LTTE is a terrorist outfit which claims itself to be the representative of Tamils in Sri Lanka who are being ill treated by the Government fo Srilanka. The LTTE never really had support in India ever since it assassinated the then Prime Minister of India, recent happenings show that the LTTE seems to have infused their thoughts into the minds of few idiots in India who believe "Tamil is bigger than India". In My opinion LTTE is breathing their last and the real threat is the presence of a few groups which have boldly voiced their opinion of wanting a separate state "Thani Thamizhagam" blowing fire in the thoughts of a united India.
Being a Tamil myself, I was shattered to say the least when i witnessed the support for LTTE in India.

I had listed Shiv Sena and PMK at the top just to voice my opinion that they are the most dangerous outfits today as they have been accepted by the people and its just a matter of time before they work towards their communal ideology causing more harm to the nation.

I only wish, that we Indians gain some insight on whats the ground reality in our nation rather than go by the inflammatory voices of communal forces which have the vocal ability to turn a chaos out of our nation. India's culture is marked by a high degree of "Syncretism" and "Cultural Pluralism", It has managed to preserve established traditions while absorbing new customs, traditions, and ideas from invaders and immigrants and spreading its cultural influence to other parts of Asia.

Let us preserve the Culture of our Nation and Embrace our Tolerance which is the treasure unearthed by us and presented to the world.