One inference that can be drawn from the politics is that secularism, in country like ours, is widely misconstrued as either being anti-religious or irreligious, quite antagonistic to the constitutional warrant which stands for “the freedom of conscience and free profession, practice and propagation of the religion”.
All the political parties of INDIA have been miserably failed in recognizing the stark differences that lie between “faith” and “ a blind faith”. Given this, I doubt whether it be able to differentiate between “a saint” and “a bigot”.
Secularism, though a solemn and sanctified proposition, has been degraded to become a misnomer in the present discourse sweeping across the nation. It appears to be a mask frequently being used in the realpolitik. Unfortunately, the connotation of the word has been relegated to the meaning as just literally opposite of “communalism”.
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