An India that denies some of us, will end in denying itself and all of us. All religions have a say in what is India, and believers of all religion are inscribed and entombed in every aspect of Indian velour, heroism and national psyche. To claim that only certain kinds of Hindus are true patriots and nationalists is an abominable illusion. India since time immemorial has been home to all religions, a spectrum of unity in diversity. The hatred and indifference that has been unleashed is a political ploy to usurp political space for self-glorification and power. Today Hindus are forced to migrate immigrate all over the world in search of better living. If one day they are forced to leave based on their religious beliefs, the refugees will not be a flood but a tsunami that India as a nation will not be able to accommodate. Certainly this narrow definition of who constitutes an Indian or what is the exclusive religion will backfire. India is not a theocratic state based on religion but a democracy embracing secularism by the wisdom of our founding fathers of the Constitution.
Nelson Lopes Chinchinim
