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Planning to get married in Goa? www.weddingsetcgoa.com Making your 'dream wedding' possible ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 22:51:50 +0900 From: Joao Barros-Pereira <[email protected]> Maybe the BJP might make a comeback if it renounces the caste system but that is unlikely, eh? Mario observes: I think that many BJP leaders are Hindu-supremacists before they are castists, though the abomination of caste continues to cast a shadow over Indian society. Fortunately, Indians overall seem wary of religious supremacists of any kind, which is why the BJP is struggling to regain the traction it seemed to have in its India Shining days, even in a country that is 80% Hindu. Some of India's unheralded strengths are deep-seated committments to the principles of freedom and democracy and secularism, which are very difficult to maintain by most less developed countries with a large percentage of poor and illiterate citizens. It is India's founding fathers who should get the credit for inculcating these traits which have continued well after they have passed on, because these traits were not part of feudal Indian culture prior to being colonized. India's primary challenges today, apart from electing honest politicians and being honest themselves, are the acquisition of civic sense and consideration for their fellow citizens and their surrounding environment without which the quality of life will continue to lag behind other emerging countries around the world.
