Can Humanity Live in Harmony? Author: Hareshwar P. Singh On the 3rd of December I (Hareshwar P. Singh) took my students to the Indian embassy in Jakarta to participate in a speech competition held on the occasion of National Integration Day. We were told by the embassy staff that they had organized yet another event in the third week of November on the occasion of Communal Harmony Day. I have since been thinking over the challenge of communal harmony in India and how lack of social harmony eventually threatens world peace. As a matter of fact, issues related to national integrity and communal harmony are closely linked. The dictionary meaning of communal harmony is: peaceful and friendly relations between people from different races, religions, or language groups. It is quite interesting to note that communal harmony is an issue peculiar to modern times; it was not a problem in earlier times. In order to appreciate this fact let us look at this issue first in a historical pe...
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