When the news, of Bihar CM Mr Nitish Kumar again pulling out the secularism card (may be for a billionth time in Indian politics) to push his own ambition to become the PM, came up a few days back - I felt I needed to go on a rant somewhere and really scold some Indian voters for letting this happen for so long.
But fortunately someone has expressed the ideas with much greater eloquence in this article...
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/no...-again/965967/
The Indian political landscape today has become a desert in which only the stunted progeny of stunted political leaders bloom. We need our political parties to throw up real leaders and we need a political discourse in which real political problems are discussed. So can we stop fishing ‘secularism’ out of the dustbin of history and holding it up as a shining ideal? Its relevance faded a long time ago
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