Secularism, as understood in our political lexicon, is the most glorious feature of our nationalism. Hence, criticising the secular person as 'sickular' ought also to be deemed anti-national in these days of self-styled nationalism. How about such a damnation of these damning individuals who have sullied the soil of this nation of the most beautiful cross-fertilisation of cultures? How about showing these fanatics their faces in the mirror of life's realisation by creating the cross-current of cultured conversation among ourselves whose beneficial influence must surely fall on those who have lost their civic direction in the melee of malicious campaigning that attempts to make a mockery of national advance?
Written by Sugata Bose
Photo : Swami Vivekananda who had anticipated the degenerate developments of the ensuing age and written his prescription for the treatment of such maladies. We have but to study deep his works and those of his leonine protégés in Nivedita and Netaji to be able to arrive at a synthetic understanding of what our foremost nation-builders thought about the contentious issues of the day and of the days to come. Let us arise from our indolence and strike our roots in the study of the life-work of these titanic beings and then, quickened by the current of higher comprehension, proceed to shape our collective destiny as a nation in the divine direction.
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