The Issue of Intolerance in India

      A strong wave of protests being raised recently against the ruling party in India for spreading hatred and intolerance among various communities in India. It is really highly deplorable in unequivocal voice. They have committed a sin against the citizen of India. Party president and Prime Minister should have immediate intervened and have taken strict actions against such members otherwise their own images are in danger. A little of its effect is visible in Bihar poll results. In nutshell such indiscipline in the party is damaging its image as well as of the whole country.

         However, we may contemplate history of India and try to find out the period of prevailing communal harmony in this country. If we leave apart the academic history books that we all studied in our schools we do not find any communal harmony in this country ever. Aryans, Dravidians, Guptas, Mauryas, Khiljis, Marathas, Mughals, British and even our own leaders divided us either communally or on linguistic basis, or even caste basis. All of them divided us in different religions for their own benefits. When regime changes the new rulers try to find out more areas for division and thus we were divided on caste basis, region basis and so on. None of the rulers have ever tried to establish any harmony among us. Hatred and intolerance was at such a measure that many rulers like Emperor Ashoka, Aurangzeb killed their own brothers to capture their throne.

         In modern history Shyama Prosad Mukherjee, Feroze Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi and many more names surface as political victims of intolerance of the ruling parties. In Tamilnadu, West Bengal, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and other states political intolerance has risen to such levels that persons having affiliations with opposition parties feel it impossible or difficult to survive in other party's rule. We have experienced the height of intolerance and mud-slinging, character assassination at the time of election campaigns.

        The biggest example of communal intolerance is the formation of Pakistan by dividing the country on the altar of Prime Minister's post among two aristocrats who believed that only they were able to run this country. They lived a life of aristocracy at the cost of this country. Their followers kept on dividing the countrymen on the basis of communities, religions, castes, languages and tried to woo the faction that has consolidated majority of votes. Reservation Policy was earlier proposed by the constitution makers only for 10 years but rulers continue it perpetually as their voting tool. You can not speak in this regard or you will lose your life for such blasphemy.

       So, where is the solution? Will it continue for ever like this and a portion of the population will remain cheated? Will this country be run with various personal laws and various percentage of reservations in every walk of life? We need a revolution among the younger generations that could never ever took place in India. I suggest a few things to start with -

1. Drop your and your children's surname,

2. Write your religion and caste as 'Indian' only wherever 
    required,

3. Promote Inter-Caste, Inter-Community marriages, and
4. Have faith on God and not on Godmen or their Ashrams, 
    Temples etc. as God lives in humans not in temples.

         Let the new Sun arise with our new generation and let the Sun of old generation set.