Unity in Diversity

Textbooks in schools still sermonize to the young citizens about “Unity in Diversity” as one of India’s pinnacle achievement after independence. Indian minds have to be united first in order for India to become a developed nation. It requires a great valor and more sacrifice for us to make ours a developed nation.

Our president should not be the only person to dream and we should at least share a portion of such dream. We need a melee much stronger than the Independence struggle for such unification. But we have quite a few obstacles during such voyage. Languages we speak, religions we believe, traditions and customs we follow, all result in a diverse and well-developed civilization and it deserves to be preserved.

But we should be bound to a set of common integrated assertions, theories and aims that constitute a socio political scenario. This requires fewer leaders, which means handful of political parties. In reality almost all of the developed nations have fewer political parties with whom the prime responsibility of providing “Checks and Balances” to the democracy is vested with. This system makes the politicians to be ”people centric” and makes them accountable for the acts they commit.

If India’s vision is to become a Developed Nation by 2020 then unifying the socio political scenario should be reached by 2010. Otherwise, the term “Unity in Diversity” has no meaning.