Ayodhya event

The Ayodhya temple event confirmed our status as a Dharmic nation. Our nationalism and solutions for multiculturalism rest solely on Dharmic principles, where all traditions have always had a mutual coexistence without principles of force. Intellectual debates of the most intense kind, yes; physical violence, rare. India has seen far less violence than Western and Middle Eastern cultures. Secularism, or ‘separation of the church and the state’ was a solution for the Christian world of Europe at a specific time in its history when various denominations were fighting each other. As intellectuals like Sri Aurobindo or Ananda Coomaraswamy, who truly understood India, said, secularism does not make sense in India. The Indian solution to harmony was to make the alien religions that came to us into traditions. We are in reverse, making our rich traditions into proper religions, applying secularism as a solution, and paradoxically generating intolerance and fundamentalism.