While receiving the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration last month, Carnatic musician T.M. Krishna said that growing up, national integration was a significant part of his vocabulary. We spoke much about development and soon national integration became passé.” Bring it back, he added, and let the new definition encompass Dalits, tribals, ethnic and linguistic minorities. He has skimmed over ideas of national integration too with statements such as “unity in diversity is India’s speciality” and “sports can be a means for national integration” but he needs a bhaichara (brotherhood) speech that goes viral. Another way to promote national integration is to broadcast all the interfaith love we can.

Source: Mint November 30, 2017 12:45 UTC