Editorial November 2013

 EDITORIAL                                                                                     

     THOTA HANUMAIAH 

                             PRESERVE THE UNITY IN DIVERSITY   

 India is a country with various religions, languages, castes and cultures, but with unity in the diversity. A unity, which is based on the unity of the people, which makes us all Indians. RABINDRANATH TAGORE said, “Aryans and non Aryans, Dravidians and Chinese, Huns, Pathans and Moguls, all have merged and lost themselves in one body,” and this body is India.

This unity is under threat from the communal forces questioning the very existence of the human lives and their livelihood. The people of India, irrespective of their religion waged struggles together for liberating India from foreign rule of British Empire and won the independence of India. Whereas, the organizations wedded to communal ideology stayed away from the struggle and sought to divide the people. But the people established the secular democratic republic of India, rejecting the communal ideology.

Time and again, the communal forces are whipping up the communal hatred among different sections of people, creating communal disharmony, particularly at a time when the elections are in offing, with a view to amass the vote bank for their narrow interests at the cost of  peace, tranquility and progress of the society at large.  In the result, the communal campaign gets intensified leading to outbreak of communal disturbances in various parts of the country. What India needed is secular nationalism but not communalism. The people of all sections, irrespective of their faith, including the media should consciously resist the hype and glorification of the acts of communal forces, if not may lead to fascist trends and  destroy the democratic secular fabric of Indian society. It is, therefore, necessary for the secular and democratic forces to unitedly counter the communal forces of all origins and maintain people’s unity.

In this regard, the working class has a greater role to play along with the secular and democratic forces to educate their rank and file as also the people and mobilize them to   preserve communal amity, defend composite culture and strengthen the unity of the people, for their progressive growth, peace and tranquility.                                              

 Thota  Hanumaiah.