Indian Fault Lines: Perception and Reality

Written by Maloy Krishna Dhar on July 1, 2009 – 12:00 am -

We live in an uncertain world, more so, in an uncertain country. Whatever is left of India after 1947 is supposed to be a ‘One India’ united imperishably by all the parameters of nationhood. This philosophical assertion and wishful thinking and perception of oneness have not stood the test of time, since 1947. The emotional oneness that was generated by the by the stalwarts of renaissance, nationalism and independence struggle started developing ideological fissure broadly between the Hindus and the Muslims and at micro level in intra-Hindu approaches to multifarious problems confronting the country. Read More »

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