: How KCR can save India #IndiaNEWS #News By Dramila A nation is an idea. It exists as long as the idea is believed, cherished, and protected by the many residing in that nation. The idea of modern

How KCR can save India #IndiaNEWS #News
By Dramila

A nation is an idea. It exists as long as the idea is believed, cherished, and protected by the many residing in that nation. The idea of modern India was thoughtfully and deliberately created, forged, and then protected over the last 75 years against all odds. Many pundits of that time predicted that it would soon disintegrate. Winston Churchill predicted that post-Independence India would fall back into Middle Ages, calling India not a country but “merely a geographical expression�?. He said, “It is no more a single country than the Equator. �?
It is a miracle that such a vast diversity of religions, regions, languages and ethnicities could all come together to believe in this idea of India, preserved it, and held onto it. On second thoughts, probably it was not a miracle, but the product of the hard work of our founding fathers and the initial set of political leaders, who worked to prove the pundits wrong.
Whereas Pakistan defined itself solely on the basis of religion and continued to hold the power in the hands of feudal lords, India defined itself quite differently, and made itself a home to all religions – Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, Jains, Parsees, four of these religions originating in this land, became a welfare State, breaking down the feudal system through land reforms, creating equal laws for women and preferential treatment of the lower castes. These are essential attributes of what make India, a multicultural, pluralistic society, where no single identity can impose itself onto others.
India’s diversity became its inherent strength. Holding the diversity together taught us our essential mantra, of ‘Live and let live’, which brought onto us a set of political compromises that became essential to make India a ‘home to all’ while fighting every effort to impose conformance. For example, when Hindi was being imposed onto everyone, English became the official language to hold India together. India is indeed the greatest idea in modern political history, and we made it a reality. And yet, today, all that is changing.
Losing our essence

Somewhere along the way, we lost our essence. We gave way to conformist ideology, ‘you should eat what we eat, you should dress up the way we dress up, you should speak like we do’, allowed the majoritarian tyranny, ‘you have to agree because we are a majority, we can impose laws onto you because we have the numbers’, to exclusivist ideology of ‘us vs them’.
In fact, India now is at a dangerous precipice. A poison that has been trying to work its way in for over a hundred years now, as a set of exclusivist, majoritarian, conformist, and fascist ideology called Hindutva, has now taken over the powers, and the idea of India itself being challenged and changed.

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