However, despite being a secular country; Indian society has a very large section of population which is vehemently Hindu and Hinduvta based.
Nations are secular. People are not. We are politically,constitutionally secular, but culturally Dharmic.
That is true all over the world and India is no exception.
As for people being vehemently Hindu - 81% if Hindu by faith. So what else do you expect ?
Even the Congress party has pro Hindu leaning. Can we forget that in the sectarian riots following the assassination of Indra Gandhi more than 10,000 Sikhs were killed in Delhi? Most of all is the repression of Kashmiri Muslims for the last 64 years!
Please don't say that to an Indian. You will be laughed at.
And what about the Sikh killings ? It was a political party that targeted sikhs and not Hindus who targeted Sikhs. Do you know that BJP and RSS were the ones who were protecting Sikhs in Delhi while Congress was killing them ?
Do you know Jagdish Tyler is a Christian ?
India has successfully exploited the fact that India is home to as many Muslims as Pakistan and only second to Indonesia in the world Muslim population. .
It is not called exploited. What prevented Pakistan from exploiting the fact it was formed as a home for Muslims ?
Please dont blame your failures on us. We did what is in our interest.