No nation on earth except India can boast of an unbroken civilisation that is still intact despite the collective assault on its culture for centuries. A nation that is seen as a real mother by its citizens, a notion that is enshrined in the concept, Bharat Matha. However, we are talking of India, our own country, a democracy, with its fabulously continuing culture that originated in the remote past. Thus in a secular state there just cannot be any ‘religious’ minority, unless we are all talking mumbo jumbo without knowing what ‘secularism’ is, or we are talking of theocracies, the states that are ruled not by the law of humans, but by the law of a god. No favour and no discrimination should be meted out on the basis of birth or belief. So, it follows, in a truly secular state, all its citizens ought to be perceived by the state as one and the same. The freedom of faith or religion is the right of an individual. In a secular democracy, as is professed by India, the state should not interfere in the personal beliefs of its citizens. India, a secular democracy or a theocracy?
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