Intolerance : who made this thing?

| By: Altamash Khan |

Intolerance has sought to be one of the biggest challenge in India post 2014 loksabha elections. After the uprising of the Hindutva ideologue in a span of last three years many new eggs have been hatched into the society in the name of religion and tradition albeit known for the massively rich cultural diversity. You would hardly remember to see words such as intolerance, muslims, hindutva, polarisation before 2014 era. what happened to the society all of a sudden that sees itself not polarised but re-polarised again and again. Where has the assimilating behaviour of we Indians lost on the dusty roads of politics. Be it Beef, religious practises or any conflicts which is incongruous to us thus, creating a gap between the blended varied community of our country. Where has the quality of forming a pleasing and the complete whole lost ?

So many questions alike might hover to your mind if you maintain an non-yogic healthy state of mind. According to WHO, a healthy person is defined as, “A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” It is worth noting that even the WHO took social well being as a characteristic of a healthy person, Are you behaving socially well ? Don’t you feel sick ?, if we go by the secular definition by the WHO, you will surely be assured to your ignorance.

Since childhood you all are taught to live in harmony, peace and amicably with everybody but soon after the seeds of intolerance sowed in our community by whosoever has led to an alternating situation across. Every another day we see certain happenings across which is directly or indirectly correlated to the religious sentiment of the people residing in the country. Media is all here to add up spices to the bitter taste of disharmony baking its own cake larger and fluffier.

India reaching in the twenty-first century, where the world is on the edge of turning into a neo society giving ways to mono-culturalism  from multi-culturalism, is still occupied to its old school of thoughts laden with massive cultural bursts continuously benefiting political outfits. No doubt India is performing better in electoral democracy but less in liberal democracy.