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The Gods of Compulsion

Around 3000 BC, in a place we today call India, the sages made two proclamations. ‘ Vasudaiva Kutumbakam’ – which means that t his world is one family and ‘ Ekam Sat Viprah Bahuda Vadanti’ –which implies that the universal reality is the same though wise people call it by different names. Putting to use the intelligence acquired over centuries, this simply means that we are a big world of enormous differences that ultimately bond into one single family. Isn’t it quite inspiring that over four thousand odd years before people thought of ‘the global village’, ‘we’ believed in tolerance and submission? That even before the world got ‘connected’, ‘we’ believed that however different we may be by gender, colour, philosophies, beliefs, language or location - we were all ‘one big family’! Fast forward to year 2015 - it has been close to 7 decades since over 14.5 million people crossed the Indian borders looking for a safe haven from the seething imbroglio of partition. I t is over t