Essay on diversity in a country a weakness or strength
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National diversity is truly our strength.
Imagining India without any major regions will not be good.
During freedom struggle regional strengths came handy.
Intellectual Bengalis with habit of thinking and debating stirred conscience of whole nation.
They were first to expose colonial exploitation.
Punjabis has courage which awakened our manhood by giving revolutionaries i.e. Bhagat Singh.
Pragmatic gujjus produced tactical genius of Gandhi and Patel who negotiated terms of independence.
Religion Hinduism started in north and flourished in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
When facing an existential threat bhakti movement rose from south and saved it.
Our diversity is great strength as we have multiple engines.
One region comes up and lifts us all so we don't go down.
Last 1000 years we did go down wholly and that was because of diversity.
Diversity based on caste and religion as we divided between us and fell to Turks/Afghans and afterwards British.