The Real Minority In India Are The Indians

“Mujhe Na koi states ke naam sunayee dete hai na dikhayee dete hain,
Mujhe sirf ek mulk ka naam sunayee deta hai…..INDIA"

This is the dialogue that Shah Rukh Khan tells in Chak De India- one of my favorite films. Probably the above line would give an insight into what I am going to write.

India is the country having the maximum diversity in terms of religion, culture, creed, languages etc. But the paradox here is that whether these diversities come under a common umbrella called INDIA?

I have come across many people who crib about the corruption in India, the pollution, the population, the lack of traffic sense etc. What I fail to understand is why these people don’t realize that India is because of the Indians. If the Indians are good, so is India and vice versa. Here there are different lines drawn on the lines of culture, creed, religion, languages etc. What people should realize is that the nation that stays together stays stronger.

Unity is the essence of success, the backbone of a nation’s strength and a power that builds up an international personality to a country. Unity itself presents to the individual and groups as a method of combining diversities and combining them in such a way that the prosperity of each becomes the enrichment of all and the strengthening of all becomes the reinforcement of each.

We can make wonders by working against communalism, casteism, linguism etc for the sake of national unity, emotional integration and becoming united Indians. We must be united because without unity nation in the world can prosper today. It is due to unity alone that a country like Japan is powerful today.

The major hurdle that comes in India’s path to success is the communal disharmony. We should develop and promote the spirit of INDIAN FIRST & INDIAN LAST rather than thinking in terms of Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian etc. Communal harmony is often destroyed by vested interests because its existence would deal a death blow to them. They instigate the poor and the illiterate people into killing their own brothers and sisters.

India is already on its way to success and this journey can be accelerated to a greater extent by overcoming these trivial hurdles of communalism, linguism, casteism etc. People prefer to be known as Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Jat, Marathi, Tamilian, Delhite etc, rather than be known as Indians. And here lies the biggest problem. Since people prefer being identified by their religion, language etc, they lose the sense of belonging and empathy towards their fellow citizens. Once the people start identifying themselves as Indians, all these problems would be over.

There is a famous saying that no Indian can tolerate two things:-
‘Desh pe waar aur Cricket mein haar’

But then the feeling of Indianness ends there itself. If we are to apply this feeling into various other walks of life, then the dream of United India can be realized.

I feel that language is the best medium in bringing citizens of a country closer. Hindi is India’s national language. If a person can’t understand or talk Hindi, he becomes a stranger to the person who can talk and understand Hindi. I feel that Hindi should be taught as a compulsory language across India to instigate a sense of being Indian amongst the citizens as they would have a common platform in the form of language.

Today let us resolve to redouble our all out efforts to build India into a mighty nation, mighty in thought, mighty in action and mighty in its peaceful service to the humanity.

FEEL INDIAN-BE INDIAN