THE MAJOR MINORITY

THE MAJOR MINORITY 

Parsees are the real minority community, not the vast number of Muslims who seem to have hijacked the status through their political mentors. It is time to call the Muslims the second major community in India and remove the convenient tag of minority. 230 million plus people a minority? Yes, mathematically so, perhaps, as this number is less than 50% of the population of India but in effect hardly so, considering the sheer weight of the number involved. Yet, Parsees are never referred to as minority neither do they themselves crave for it or trumpet it in public. There lies the whole game, that of using the Muslims for political gain, an attempt for which all parties are responsible in varying degrees and some of them even culpable to the offence of creating social disharmony thereof for cheap electoral gains.

Written by Sugata Bose