India: six decades and more secularism has gradually been reduced to nothing more than a creed that is more professed than practiced

From: The Hindu
New Delhi, October 5, 2013

Heritage bartered

Sohail Hashmi

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It is easy to inscribe secular on your constitution, it is easier to profess it and chant it ritually. But to adhere to the basics of secular conduct is no child’s play, more so in countries where the population is