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NATION BUILDING

Nation is a community of people formed on the basis of common language, history, ethnicity, culture and territory. A nation exists when its members recognise one another as belonging to the same community and as bearing special obligation to each other. Main characteristics of a nation are sovereignty, land, population, government, common descent, common language, common religion, common historical experiences, same cultural practices and traditions and infrequent internal ethnic conflicts. India has most of the ingredients of a strong nation in abundance. It is a vibrant democracy with an exceptionally explicit constitution, strong central government with all its organs, competent armed forces, well developed agricultural, industrial, health and education infrastructure, extensive air, road and rail networks and postal services. We are, however a multi racial, multi lingual and multi religious secular state. Our strongest characteristic is ‘Unity in Diversity’. While all languages, religions and races must flourish, we can identify a national religion, language and race that embrace all the multiplicities. Our national religion should be ‘Sarv Dhram’, our national race should be Hindustani / Bhartiya / Indian and our national language should be ‘Hindi’. We can begin with those who are part of central government infrastructure in any capacity to be Indians before being regional, pledge allegiance to Sarv Dharam and acquire minimum working proficiency in Hindi language.

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Anonymous said…
Nice read,though our infrastructure is absolutely solid,stable and progressive but people responsible need to be honest,truthful and trustworthy with strong nationalist feelings, no place at all for self serving people .
A K Yadav said…
Well articulated Sushil. As stated by you, everything is in place. It only requires to be implemented with a strong will with errant authorities being taken to task. We have reached the stage of now or never.
Unknown said…
Very well written... strongly agree with the views pur forward..

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