Unity in Diversity

Things to remember

• Hinduism, the eternal religion, followed by majority gave a conducive environment to Buddhism from the ancient time.
• Lumbini, the birthplace of Gautam Buddha, swayambhu, Boudhanath, etc. are looked upon by Hindus as well with great reverence.
• According to article 34, ‘it will be the social objective of the state to create a harmonious social life based on justice and morality, by removing all sorts of socio-economic inequalities and establishing coordination between different races, castes, religions, languages, communities and creeds’.
• Then according to article 35, ‘the state will adopt a policy of strengthening national unit by maintaining cultural diversity through equal development of all’s languages, literatures, scripts, Arts and culture, by developing harmonious social relations based upon equality and coexistence of various religions, cultures, castes, creeds, communities, origins and languages’.