“The Nobel Committee regards it as an important point for a Hindu and a Muslim, an Indian and a Pakistani, to join in a common struggle for education and against extremism,” said the Nobel Committee after the Peace prize for 2014 was jointly awarded to Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India. This “Hindu- Muslim” reference has created some furore, but at a time when both religions in varying degrees, face the rise of extremism and the discrediting of tolerance, there is surely a need to find a common agenda of modernity. In times of religious mayhem, both within India and outside, at least in our republic of increasingly ‘hurt sentiments’, perhaps this is the time for India’s Read More
