Every community feels superior than others. Brits and french, english and scottish, catholics and protestants, shias and sunnis, hindus and muslims, north indians and south indians and innumerable groups and communities have jokes and sarcasm against each others. that does not mean they hate each other. Specially we indians know how to live with diversity. I am living in mumbai. I am often grouped as a woman, as a north indian, as a bhaiya from UP, as a muslim, as a sunni, as a non-vegetarian etc etc but when i am grouped as a woman i have with me women of all communites, religions, regions; when i am grouped as a north indian or a UPite i get united with men and women of all communites from north india; when i am grouped as a muslim or sunni muslim, i get united with men and women of the community from all over india or for that matter even the world over...... what i mean to say there are many links like a matrix that separates us and unite us as well. I have something common with north indians like language, culture, and food etc. that unites me more with a hindu from north india than a muslim from south india but when i have my religion, i feel the muslims from kerala, hyderabad, UP or Mumbai are all same and this very thing unites us with muslims of Arab, Pakistan and anywhere in the world... I am sure in the same way hindus or sikhs living in Pakistan would be relating themselves with Indian hindus and sikhs. So everybody in the world has something to be connected with each other... this is what referred as "Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam". Similarly when it comes to India, I automatically get united with people of India from Kashmir to kanyakumari and from arunachal to gujarat regardless of which region, religion they belong to.
Its very unfortunate that many people feel that indian muslims should not identify or relate with pakistani muslims and if they relate, they are anti national. I can only pity their mindset. Look at Sania Mirza who proudly carries the indian flag despite marrying a pakistani and proudly calls herself an Indian and not just indian but a patriotic indian. There are many marriages between indians and pakistanis. Actress Ayesha Dharkar's mother is a pakistani muslim married to an indian hindu. And if Ayesha or her father feel that India-Pak should be friends, will you term them as anti national. Let me tell you that if Hindus feel for hindus all over the world, sikhs feel for sikhs from Nankana Sahib, Paksitan and elsewhere then there is nothing wrong if a shia has a soft corner for Iran and shias else where and muslims have a feeling of brotherhood for their Ummah. Indian nationalism is not restricted to a community but it belongs to all. Remember a school boy of mongoloid race from Manipur wanting to be the PM of India when he grows up... and trying to take tips from Modi. I am sure you did not get a chance to interact with North Eastern people else you will categorize them also as anti hindu or anti india or anti south asian race. Please dont fall prey to political gimmicks of some petty political groups and dont let them destroy the essence of our nationhood. Please dont forget that those muslims who did not want to live with other indians, migrated to pakistan. Those hindus and sikhs who did not want to live in India migrated to canada and other western countries. And there will be people who may be hating India for various reasons like being dirty, poor, lack of infrastructure and other basic facilities and lack of opportunities or religious intolerance but unable to move out of india... that does not mean as a nation we should kill them or declare them anti national. They have a right to their feelings and right to express themselves. Thats where we feel proud of our diversity, democracy and tolerance.
