Given the almost daily turmoil over religion in India i decided to revisit secularism and ask myself the question Is India Secular?
I dare say no, for in a truly secular nation every second official document will not require you to state your religion, for in a truly secular state laws will be governed by a common code and not by different codes for different religions, for in a truly secular nation the government will not form or fund any body related to any religion, for in a truly secular state the government will not support any form of religious pilgrimage and neither shall it impede anyone from undertaking one using their own personal means, for in any truly secular state religious bodies shall carry no measure of political power within themselves and shall confine themselves to matters theocratic only.
we remain secular only in letter while successive governments work more and more to erode that secularism and divide the nation further in terms of religion. "Akbar the great" had a more secular administration than any government we have had in the recent past i would say.