The land’s mass of people, currently estimated to be 1,400 million, with their social backgrounds, economic disparity, opinions hard to change, food habits, languages, education levels, health/illness status, awareness of their role in safeguarding the country’s integrity at very low levels, public behaviour and not to forget their utter disregard to the land’s laws, all factors taken one at a time or all of these together provide a unique example of a country hosting an unmanageable populace polarised to an extent beyond words. We Indians carry our multiple identities, the dualities of our life, the vast variety of languages in which we interact among ourselves, often not keen on proper comprehension of what they hear, uncompromising culinary preferences, both intra-family and inter-family as well as intra-faith and inter-faith, amidst which unimaginable range of diversity, the society appears to be in a socially equilibrium state, a miracle by any measure, notwithstanding flare-ups in the open space across the country.
We have heard from public speakers of all hues on many occasions and from many platforms pointing the accusing finger to the two major alien rulers of the land for dividing its people on various counts, particularly the tricky social factor of caste and faiths, forgetting the helping hand that the people unwittingly offered to the rulers during several centuries.
