It's Time to Move On...
Hey it’s DiwAli! It’s that time of the year when the whole nation celebrates the festival with love and happiness. The combo of extra lights, sweets and presents enhances the joy of togetherness. But it saddens me to see the same people bearing the feelings of religious differences which resurface as soon as the festival is over. We still have certain issues because of our over-sensitive sentiments and false beliefs which don’t allow us to be secular though India has become secular over six decades ago. In an era which is supposed to see India becoming a superpower by virtue of progress in its national economy, development in science and technology, our people are stuck on proving the superiority of one religion over other. But how many of those know and understand what religion actually is? And what does any religion teach? If they would have known and understood we wouldn't have fought over issues like Religious Intolerance at all! Let’s get some perspective here. The ren