The Hindu : Nation for all

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Monday, Mar 25, 2002

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Nation for all

Sir, — The excellent study on Gujarat carnage by Muchcund Dubey (March 20-21) is a praiseworthy exposition. Sheer sense of justice to the wronged and the immortal teachings of the Upanishads have been the inspiring force behind this and other writings, I feel. The Hindu has served the nation in its hour of peril by giving words to the wordless and comfort to the comfortless.

It is, thus, heartening to realise that Gandhiji's India still lives on. On August 9, 1942, the Father of the Nation had given us a message. ``India is the land of all those who are born and brought up here, who have nowhere else to go. It must be clearly understood that India belongs to Parsees, Christians, Muslims and all the other non-Hindus, even as it belongs to the Hindus. Free India will not be a Hindu Rashtra. It will remain to represent the essence of the teachings of all religions and thereby all communities — not that of the majority alone''.

This is the secular India that should live and not die. ``If India lives you and I live, if India dies, then, who lives here.'' Let us all remember this truth uttered by Jawaharlal Nehru.

M. Muhammad,
Kannur, Kerala

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