Make Yourself Eligible, Don’t Make Demands

when the former European colonies in Asia and Africa won political freedom, they discovered that they had no one to man their educational institutions. And so, many of these countries invited ‘experts’ from the very same European countries that they had earlier been colonized by. Things went to such an extreme in some cases that political independence soon turned into technical servitude! Today, Western countries control these states by controlling their economies and through their domination in the field of science, in just the same way as they once controlled these states politically. Like Muslims, Christians, too, are a minority in India. They could have had the some complaints with regard to the majority community as Muslims keep talking about. Yet, Christians do not face the same issues in India as Muslims do. Why? Christianity is a missionary religion. It is engaged in missionary work in a very organized way. Many Christians believe that salvation is possible only through Christianity, not through any other religion. They also think it very important to maintain their separate identity. Co-religionists of the Indian Christians from Western countries—Western colonial powers—invaded and conquered India and exploited it for centuries. A Christian colonial power sided with the people who wanted to partition India. The centres of religious loyalty for Indian Christians are located outside India. Christians are sometimes accused by some people of being agents of imperialist powers. Yet, despite all of this, the Christians’ interests are fully preserved in India. This is because as a community, they benefit others. They are givers, not just takers. Christians number just a few million in India, around 2 per cent of the country’s population. The country’s Muslim population is much more than