WHERE HE MET HIS INDIAN FRIEND WHO ASKED HIM,

HOW DID YOU FIND MY COUNTRY?

THE AMERICAN SAID IT IS A GREAT COUNTRYWITH SOLID ANCIENT HISTORY ANDIMMENSELY RICH WITH NATURAL RESOURCES.

THE INDIAN FRIEND THEN ASKED, HOW DID YOU FIND INDIANS?

INDIANS? WHO INDIANS?

 I DIDN'T FIND OR MET A SINGLE INDIAN THERE IN INDIA!

WHAT NONSENSE? WHO ELSE COULD YOU MEET IN INDIA?

THE AMERICAN SAID,

IN KASHMIR I MET A KASHMIRI,

IN PUNJAB A PUNJABI,

IN BIHAR, MAHARASTRA, RAJASTHAN, BENGAL,TAMIL NADU, KERALA:

BIHARI, MARATHI, MARWADI, BENGALI, TAMILIAN, MALAYALI………

THEN I MET

A MUSLIM,

A HINDU

A CHRISTIAN,

A JAIN,

A BUDDHIST

AND MANY MORE PEOPLE BUT NOT A SINGLE INDIAN DID I MEET

THINK HOW SERIOUS THIS IS

THE DAY WOULD NOT BE FAR OFF WHEN INDEED WE WOULD

BECOME A COLLECTION OF NATION STATES AS SOME

REGIONAL ANTI-NATIONAL POLITICIANS WANT.

FIGHT BACK & SAY, ‘I AM AN INDIAN’