The uninterrupted 40-year Congress rule bears testimony to this fact. The rising tide of fissiparous and centrifugal forces should be enough to convince us against doing anything that disturbs the social equilibrium any more. It is time the pinpricks being administered through the acts such as the one enacted by the Uttar Pradesh Government or the petty instigations such as desecration of places of worship are checked. No person in his right senses will ever launch broadsides against another s faith. Dante s age is passe.
Nothing escapes public censure and cheap gimmicks recoil on the sources from where they originate.
Let us all build a world where everyone lives with his dignity intact, his faith unharmed and life sacrosanct. Muslims have contributed to the unity of this nation in no small measure. Let us be reminded of the fact that it was the much-maligned Mughal ruler Aurangzeb who annexed Afghanistan into Mughal India. And the person who carried the militants on his flight to Kandahar last month was his namesake from the modern, free India. It is for the nation to decide which of the Jaswant Singhs brought India glory and who surrendered its honour.