Burning Issue

Intolerance is an incurable chronic disease of our society which though can never be cured but to an extent can be controlled to spread out through application of pills of positive thought, constructive ideas, message of peace etc. Most of the people in our society want to spend their lives in peace and prosperity but unfortunately some out of them have their opinion of monopolizing it hence in order to materialize their dream they create  topsy- turvy atmosphere in surrounding on the name of culture and religion, by sowing the seeds of hatred and animosity on faith and belief  so this very seeds keeps on taking a shape of giant tree. Such elements don’t think about the repercussion of their acts on society and surroundings whereon they moot the ideas of destruction for the sake of their own construction. Our surrounding is like house wherein each and everybody has interrelation with each other so if any untoward happens inside people of outside peep into it and enjoy the affairs. Our civilization is one of the oldest and our rich culture is amalgamation of diverse cultures. Some are proud of their ancient cultures and civilization, some are accused of descendent of invaders so they don’t have right to proud of their customs and cultures. Sometimes people are even compelled to adopt a particular belief and sometimes forcefully imposed on them which is wrong and even unacceptable in pluralistic society. There is need of environment in our society where customs and cultures of various sects, religion must not only be entertained but also be given due respect. Nobody can deny from this reality that fanaticism has always been vitiating the society and liberal views has always been strangled. But why does it happen? Perhaps we get fanatic only because when we sometimes feel that our religion or our culture is in danger or feeling of superiority comes in mind hence we try to impose our ideology on others instead of rectifying our own fallacy. Society or country is made up from various sects, religion, faiths so when we live together even after having a bit of differences it is called good chemistry but even if slight imbalance occurs in chemistry it jeopardizes its existence which adversely effect not only the society but whole country resulting chaos and hustles and causing ultimate obstruction in the progress of humanity. Our society and country need to be viewed in bio –science perspective to the life which says that “ life is biological balance of various substance occurring in nature, when this balance is disturbed beyond redemption, death takes place.”      

Health and long life of a country depends on the principle of ‘ Unity in diverse culture and religions’ so imbalance of  substances from the unity in diversity which integrates one and all  have enough potential to jeopardize the overall health of country. There may be intolerance among religions, among creeds and casts, among regions and even among countries which we can never extirpate but we can to some extent curb it through our efforts of liberalizing our fanaticism. Even if intolerance is chronic disease it still is not supposed to be fatal. It is our positive efforts to make progressive society and peaceful atmosphere which can prevent this disease becoming fatal.

Some call the present scenario a transition period where power was transferred in the hand of those who can bring  glory of our erstwhile culture. Can it be feasible by creating rift in our old mixed culture which has had also solid root of in our society or Is this only medium to get power by exploiting majority on the name of religion and faith? Faith and belief is very sensitive issue in our society it needs to be handled cautiously lest our dream of creating an environment of develop and progressive nation turned it into an environment of animosity, hatred.   

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