Interesting article on Nathuram Godse's mindset on why he killed Mahatma Gandhi.
It is important to understand the underpinnings on why people take to violence and in this case, its religious fundamentalism. Sadly, India is still suffering under views taken by extremists, whether it is Muslim or Hindu (Ram veer sena's campaign against women in pubs is the latest example).
How will India come out of this? When these extremists don't have popular support and society shuns them. And the only way for that is to ensure modern education so that they are indoctrinated in the wrong way (its impossible to eliminate them fully since even advanced nations have fanatics).
India always has prided itself in its secular credentials. Which means that they dont subscribe to any religious ideology like say Pakistan but still allow people at the individual level to follow their religion, whatever it is.
So should it allow proselytism and conversion in the name of religion? I dont think religion alone is to blame since even if religion is not involved, violent tendencies do arise (say communist revolutions in Russia and China). I think the issue is extreme views which like to achieve their goals via violent means...that needs to be eliminated.
India needs strict enforcement of the law.
No violence can be tolerated. No one should or can take the law into their own hands.
And that's only possible with a strong, apolitical, well funded police force.
I suggest India raise the salaries of the police force thereby decreasing the corruption temptation, make them totally apolitical and ask them to crack down on violence.
Only if we nip this internal security issue now can India emerge as a strong nation.
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