India, Feb. 16 -- India is a country full of diverse categories. The diversity of religions is astounding. The British used the Hindu and Muslim identities to sow the seeds of 'Divide and Rule.' They abused history to plant the hatred, which became the base on which the communal streams of the Muslim League and the Hindu Mahasabha-RSS introduced their own versions of history and created elements of hatred between the so far mostly cordial relations between Hindus and Muslims.

This hate created exceptional violence in pre-partition times and was the major factor for conceding to the Mountbatten plan for partitioning the country. The apostle of peace, the father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, had to face three bullets on his bare chest on ...