OUR FOUNDING FATHERS HAD A VISION FOR INDIA!
IN RECENT YEARS VESTED INTERESTS HAVE ATTEMPTED TO DESTROY THIS VISION.
IN OUR HEARTS, THIS FLAME THAT WAS IGNITED BY OUR FOREFATHERS IS
STILL BURNING AS BRIGHT AS EVER!
WE SHALL OVERCOME!!!
"I do not expect India of my dreams
to develop one religion, i.e., to be wholly Hindu or wholly Christian or
wholly Mussalman, but I want it to be wholly tolerant, with its religions
working side by side with one another.'' Mahatma
Gandhi
"For a time they (Hindus and Muslims) flowed along their separate courses, but nature's immutable law brought them into a confluence. Eleven hundred years of common history have enriched India with our common creative and constructive achievements."
"Our languages, our history, our literature,
our culture, our art, our dress, our manners, our costumes bear the stamp
of this common life. Our shared life of a thousand years has forged
a common nationality. Such molds cannot be artificially constructed.
Nature’s hidden anvils shape them over the centuries. The mold has
now been cast and destiny has set her seal upon it."
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Congress address, 1940
"The whole history of India was witness of the toleration and even encouragement of minorities and of different racial groups. There is nothing in Indian history to compare with the bitter religious feuds and persecutions that prevailed in Europe. So we did not have to go abroad for ideas of religious and cultural toleration; these were inherent in Indian life." Jawaharlal Nehru 1945