letter to editor about communal harmony
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15-A, Green Avenue
Ludhiana
The Editor
The Hindu
Chandigarh
February 28, 2017
Subject: Maintaining Communal Harmony
Sir:
I write this letter to express my deep concern over the problem of weakening communal harmony in our country. Ours is a country inhabited by people belonging to different religions, ethnicities, faiths, and creeds. Maintaining communal peace, camaraderie, etc. become quite challenging and formidable. The hostile neighbouring countries take immense pleasure in destabilizing the peace in our country. In the recent past many attempts to cause turbulence in the communal harmony have been foiled. Still there were a few incidents that made the atmosphere quite tense. People of India must not let nefarious forces disturb our national peace and harmony.
The Indian Government along with the people, must formulate a nationalistic policy aimed at promoting national integration and harmony, and implement this policy strictly. Education policy, foreign policy, and all the other policies must aim at promoting national interest. Nation must be supreme; all the rest must be subservient to it.
Any person or element that harms or undermines national integration must be strictly dealt with. Schools can play a great role. The children must be repeatedly told how our freedom fighters belonging to different faiths, religions, ethnicities, creeds, etc fought together and won freedom for our country. Media can play a very crucial role in this regard. People must join in this national integration campaign. I appeal to the concerned authorities to look into the issue. I am sure you will give suitable place to my views in the columns of your esteemed daily.
Thanking you,
Yours truly
Gibran
The Statesman,
4, Chowringhee Square,
Kolkata - 700001.
Dear Sir,
I take this opportunity to write to you on an issue that constantly haunts me in my dreams as much as it affects me in my waking hours.
All men are created equal and yet some are victims of communal strife. This is a problem across the country in spite of this great nation being a mature and vibrant democracy. I wonder why people are discriminated against on the basis of their religious practice, their ethnic or social background and so on. The only possible reason is we as people have retained our multiple and separate identities instead of considering ourselves as Indians first and Indians last.
I strongly feel we must have a law in place for maintaining communal harmony. It should have provisions for punishing those that violate its tenets and equally compensate those that are victims of communal disturbances. The Government and the Opposition must all come together in this effort. The press and other media must render their fullest support in this endeavour.
We must also propagate communal harmony in our daily lives and shun those that instigate communal violence. This must be instilled into our children too at a very young age.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully
Rajat Kumar Pandey