BSMurthy
Being in the seventy-fifth year of our republic, it is imperative that WE THE PEOPLE OF INDIA must evaluate THOSE PEOPLE OF INDIA, who had adopted our constitution.
But to put things into perspective, who 'We' are need to be ascertained for the constitution, instead of forging India into an unified nation, turned it into a conglomeration of disparate entities, though by then, Gurajada had famously stated that 'it's not the soil but its people that make a country' (desamante mattikadoi, desamante manushuloi). So, given that the Hindu majority is 'the other' for the Muslim minority, the raison d'être for India's partition on the Islamic lines and as the evangelists are ever engaged in harvesting the 'heathen' Hindu souls for their Christian salvation, effectually in the Indian socio-political context, 'We' are the Hindus, then as well as now.