Secularism

In the monolithic religious environment of the west, Christianity is taken for granted and, for all practical purposes, is the official religion. Thus for them secularism doesn't land in serious conflicts. Moreover, it provides them a very convenient tool to keep at bay any other religion based political aspirations thus enabling them to escape from an environment of religion based political parties, reservations, minority rights, so on and so forth. Now what is the situation in India? Here, for centuries, the rulers themselves, whether it be Mughal or British, played the religious card promoting and sponsoring all sorts of cultural, religious discrimination and divisions . Now, after all these, it is practically impossible to chalk out a policy ignoring these chronic issues except by some mass based dictatorship like Communism which by contrast is losing its mass base rapidly perhaps due to its own inability to find a path forward through this labyrinth. Thus in both western and Indian models secularism is in reality not what it is made to appear to be. And it is totally meaningless to draw comparison between them.