SECULARISM.

SECULARISM.

Secular means not related to religion and secularism states that the religion should not interfere in any kind of social, political subject meaning that secularism does not allow anyone to make differences on the basis of castes, gender, religion, etc, and its main function is to bring equality for all human beings. In a secular country, there is no right with the government to discriminate against anyone on the basis of their castes and all the persons have the right to follow a religion of their choice, no matter from which religion they belong. Also, the government cannot take any decision to promote or to favor any religion. The government should be neutral and take decisions on the basis of honesty only. With the 42^nd Amendment of the constitution of India enacted in 1976, the preamble to the constitution asserted that India is a  secular country as in the past because of the Divide and Rule policy, our country was already almost divided.  and to bring all of us again under one umbrella secularism was the need of the hour. In our past, there was a big valley between the upper castes and the lower castes but as time is changing these valleys are getting low and low day by day. In a country like India which is full of diversity where people belong to different castes, religion, color, and creed secularism had proved to be a boon, and more and more countries who want to be truly democratic are switching their existing form of government with secularism. However, there are still many people who believe that because of secularism their religious sentiment is getting hurt. However, secularism is so far away from any religious belief. It’s one of the biggest reasons is illiteracy as because people are uneducated they start to believe in the old rituals and try to discriminate against people too. So, to promote secularism to its highest level first we have to educate the people. Secularism provides us with so many advantages like fair decision making, right to think as everyone has the right to express their views and feelings. It also brings “UNITY IN DIVERSITY”. To be truly democratic country secularism must be there as all men are born free and their religion cannot decide their future, but they can decide their religion. As time is changing secularism is increasing day-by-day but there are still many discriminatory rules which our society is yet to overcome.