PROTAGONISTS OF FAITH OR POWER-CRAZY POLITICIANS ?

PROTAGONISTS OF FAITH OR POWER-CRAZY POLITICIANS ?

Men with little sympathy for fellow men aspire yet to defend the faith. The Bengalis have a proverb describing them -- বামুন হয়ে চাঁদে হাত ('the dwarf reaching out to touch the moon'). Absurd proposition. Let the heart expand first to include all of humanity within its embrace. Then such political programming will make sense. Right now it is destruction of faith going on at the hands of its very protagonists, for ignorance can scarce come to the aid of any, much less the spiritual tradition of the motherland. A segmented, divided polity, continuously feeding in hatred into the social system and feeding off it in consequence, can scarce be the bulwark for the nation's development. 

Written by Sugata Bose