Essays

Introduction. Mahatma Gandhi once said "We have to produce a society of those people who profess different religions, but they live like brothers". In fact, this statement of Mahatma Gandhi has the essence of national integration in India, where people of different religions live together.

Obstacles created by British rulers in the foundation of integration in India. The British rulers sowed the seeds of hatred among them. People of different religions in India, because they believed in the policy of "Divide and Rule". The British government in India encouraged Muslim League lo demand Pakistan on the basis of separate religion and separate nation.

What Constitution of India says? But the Constitution of free India lays down that India is a secular state which means that people of different religions have full freedom of worship in this country and they live like brothers.

What is National Integration National Integration means that we should have a true spirit of patriotism in our hearts. We should think that we are Indian first and members of a particular religion afterwards. We should consider ourselves part and parcel of our country. We should always remember of the following words of Swami Ram Tirath:-

 “The land of India is my own body.  The Comorin is my feet and the Himalayas are my head. From my hair flows Ganga and from my head comes the Brahmaputra. The Vindhyacal is girt round my loins."

Need of patriotism. We stand in the need of true patriotism. If all of us become true patriot, there will be no communal riots it this holy land of India. But alas, these riots have been rising their ugly head from time to lime in free India. We were justified when we blamed the British rulers in India for encouraging communal riots in this country. But there is no justification for the communal riots even after getting our independence.

Communal riots are a belot on the name of this holy land. The recent communal riots in Assam, Gujarat, U.P. Delhi and Punjab are a blot on the fair name of our holy country. It is a matter of shame and sorrow that even Hindus and Sikhs of the Punjab, who till now had been living like brothers, have fallen a prey to communal riots after the tragic killing of Indira Gandhi. The need of the hour is that all Punjabis should consider one another as brothers and live peacefully as such.

A great need for a National language. India is a vast country, where many languages are spoken by people. This causes a great hindrance in the way of national integration. The people of a country remain united if there is a single national language spoken by all its people. Hindi can become such a national language but people of the South do not own it as their national language.

Conclusion.   Anyhow, efforts should be made by the Government of India that all people in this country may own Hindi as their national language even if they use English as link language.