Fanatics had existed even in the most liberal society. India has also been the most liberal society for five thousand years. The fanatics are attempting to rewrite the definition of nation as belonging to a section. Yet India has been the most liberal land bound by its various religious beliefs, the sects that grew in every religion due to attitude of tolerance. India is the only land that existed for more than four thousand years without a centralized political authority that could keep the people bound by a single discipline. It did not evolve even a centralized religious authority or a single scripture that would be acceptable to all habitants. In fact India not only survived but also thrived on multiplicity of its gods and deities unlike four religions that developed in the Middle East with a single god and single scripture.

Vedas were composed by sages to prescribe right kinds of scientific rites essential for healthy life. They were eulogies for great lives that had survived. Upanishads came to unfold mysteries of science that sustained life. But it did not help to emergence of a single political authority. An American scholar has claimed in her book that India was for centuries as land bound by various pilgrimage centres. For a Malayali from Kerala, Varanasi was as holy as it was for Oriya or Gujarati even though three cultures were totally difference from each other without meeting point except their faith in holiness of deities in Varanasi.

India was never a land that lived by sword. It was always a world of words that unraveled mysteries of life. Even gods were devised on the basis of natural forces that gave life as boons and it caused destructions as curses. But even though guide and steering entity of natural forces remained hidden from sight, they were not considered to be omnipotent. Hence gods were imagined to be like humans. Only difference was they remained immortal as they existed generation after generations while humans departed after their life time. They were unequal in strength. Trinity of life came later on as it was realized that life cycle was of generation, organization and destruction as the birth, life span and death denoted this aspect. As no one knew where humans went on their death, a comfort was discovered in belief that humans came back. But the trinity was also not considered to be final authority. They were also obeying a superior authority known as Vidhi. Even Samudra Manthan was nothing more than churning of mysteries of life. It was to explain away what was the mystery of life.

Religions of India were not blind faith in unknown. It was devised as a scientific way of living. Jainism is a science of diets and Buddhism is nothing more than avoidance of excesses of both kinds either reveling in luxuries or starving to death. Sanatan dharma was more or less a scientific way of life - good deeds brought rewards and bad actions deserved punishment. Any and every society can survive only on this basis of the rigorous observation of discipline of life absorbed in every mind. Thus religion did not make distinction among members of society. Only the construction of society for smooth survival brought in divisions. Acharya Rajneesh has said no human is born in any religion. It is attached in upbringing. Sant Kabir a progeny of a Hindu couple could be brought up by a Muslim family.

Every kind of invader was assimilated into the caste system of India. Even the Muslims became a part of enchanting culture of India and yet they remained outside as they raised their hands differently in praise of the creator. Both did not know then nor do they know now who their almighty is, what is his
or her colour, shape or structure or where does it reside. After intense research of three decades, Sir Isaac Newton had confessed he could not prove who and where the god was but he also could not disprove existence of god. After all life is sustained like a mechanized clock work. So some force, some engineer or authority is sustaining it.

In India, the Muslim society could not remain immune to the Indian social construct. Each group that switched over to Islam as faith also carried their caste and vocation to impair the classless and casteless social construct. Even provincial differences went along. The Bengali Muslim could not assimilate himself in the Malayali or Tamil Muslim culture. They were also distinguished by different caste and social class in their new faith. The effect has been prominently on display in Pakistan. The Muslims from Bihar who migrated to Pakistan are treated as outsiders even after seven decades as the Muslims from different provinces refuse to accommodate them in their own culture.

Yet a new type fanaticism is under evolution in some provinces in India that is attempting to redefine the Indianness into sectarian separation. They are no more proud to be known as Indian, Bharatiya or even Hindustani. They want to be identified as the Hindu. Some fanatic from the Upper strata wields words to terrify the others and their words immediately become viral on social media by groups that have no courage or aptitude to become fanatics but are thrilled to indicate their appreciation of these fanatic views.

No nation can, in modern times, become a whole nation of one creed. America too had to accept Indians of different faiths from India to be part of its composite culture so much that even the President elects have had to accept their contribution to making of America in their acceptance address. Other nations of Europe or Singapore and down south in Australia and New Zealand have to accept superior qualities of Indians.

The fanatics refuse to or are unable to realize that no nation can throw away 15 per cent of its populace in sea or transport them to other land. In Pakistan they would continue to be burden as outsiders and cause of perennial conflicts. Flames emanating from it would singe Indian parts as well. Can NaMo government sustain itself on such separation? But then there are no cures. Growth of such fanatics is essential element in every prospering society. They existed in America as well. Rabid fanaticism is felt in most developed countries. It is product of leisure as well as fear of the prospering class within. Poor can day dream but they cannot find leisure to propel their life into fantasies of being alone.