Hamid Ansari’s Woes: Plight of Pluralism in India
Ram Puniyani
February 20, 2021
India began as a plural democracy; respect for diversity was the core value. The provisions of safeguards for minorities were in built. These safeguards were formulated by the Constituent Assembly’s committee on Minorities headed by Sardar Patel. Seven decades down the lines where do we stand in matters of security and economic welfare of the religious minorities. Most of the inquiry commission reports related to communal violence, the scholarly works on communal violence by the likes of Paul Brass, Asghar Ali Engineer and recently from Yale University give a very painful picture of the communal violence, showing that the Muslims minorities in particular and lately Christian Minorities have suffered adversely. Sachar Committee Report (2006) showed the economic marginalization of Muslim minorities.
Ram Puniyani India began as a plural democracy; respect for diversity was the core value. The provisions of safeguards for minorities were in built. These
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Hyderabad: For 18 members of a family, a 2,000km visit to the famous shrine in Ajmer of Khaja Moinuddin Chishti ended up in tragedy hours after the journey began.
Fourteen members of the family were killed on the spot as the mini bus carrying them hit a divider, jumped to the other side and rammed into another truck coming in opposite direction. The family had left Madanapalle town of Chittoor district on Saturday night. The deceased include 8 women, 5 men and a child.
The horrendous accident occurred on Hyderabad-Bangalore highway near Veldurthy in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh at 330 am on Sunday.