Degeneracy Of India's Secularism

The politics over Taslima Nasreen's stay in India is reflective of the degeneration and degradation of the egalitarian notion of secularism in India.The execrable inconsistencies in the standpoints befriended by political outfits over the issue convey the hideous reality of the conquest of India's secularism by the practitioners of destructive appeasement politics,who deem ineffectually and cowardly,that communalism and extremism emanating from minority communities are less monstrous than that being championed by individuals belonging to the majority.This is a fallacious argument,and if rigidly and spinelessly adhered to by our politicians,and also by the media,then the envisioned intellectual advancement and the capacity of tolerance of our country's people to dissenting views is bound to be held hostage to the unjustified and contemptuous diktats of an unholy and ultra-zealous minority of hoodlums.We wouldn't be protecting secularist principles,rather inexcusably betraying them by succumbing to these fundamentalists' demands.Nasreen's condition is pitiable but all the sane members of the civil society should take up the cudgels for her.It would be an unpardonable tragedy of enormous shame if the Government fails in its obligation to defend Nasreen.An appropriate manner of doing that would be granting of permanent citizenship to her.