NEW DELHI, March 27 -- This India belongs to all of us. The controversy about who is real Indian is fallacious. It can only stoke hatred, division, and inhumanity.

Questions such as who came first, who came last, who are the invaders, and who are the real inheritors of India's culture and nationality are being raised from rooftops.

Let us for a moment think that the communities that are here at least for a century are all Indians. In fact, we are all migrants or invaders in one sense. Ages ago, the Indian subcontinent belonged to no one. Our earliest forefathers entered India from distant lands, be it Eurasia, Mid Asia, West Asia, East Asia, or any other continent.

Archaeologists tell us that there were some earliest settlers in the ...