A NEW INDIA

After partition, the Muslim community was driving up a blind alley, as it were. But now, with the complete change in the Muslim attitude, the Muslims are, according to my assessment, a truly fast growing community, in almost all walks of life in modern India, albeit unconsciously, rather than consciously. History shows that great success is always the outcome of great shock. For Isaac Newton (1642-1727), “apple shock” led to a great discovery. That is, the law of gravity. This applies also to the case of the Muslims. The Muslims, by their way of thinking—which was unrelated to hard reality—took the partition of India to be a political shock for their future. But after 1971, everything changed greatly, a new process set in the Indian Muslim community, and now this process has reached its culmination and Muslims have emerged as a self-aware community of India, whereas prior to this, they had been lacking in any appropriate sense of their own value to the country. One international survey shows that when two communities co-exist in one country—a majority community and a minority community—according to the law of nature, such a situation is bound to be fraught with tension. The pressure arising therefrom is bound to start a natural process by which the minority community, can do no other than enhance its creativity. If, at the outset it was uncreative in character, it will eventually re-build itself as a creative community. This is a law of nature that is bound to come into force, even without any declaration of intention, or obvious planning. This is an ongoing process in India, and according to the law of nature, it is impossible for any group to call a halt to it: it is bound, sooner or later, to come to fruition. The so-called Muslim intelligentsia is still intent upon proclaiming that Muslims are under siege, whereas the reality is totally different—the law of nature inevitably prevails, and certainly, Muslims are no exception to it. o The so-called Muslim intelligentsia is still intent upon proclaiming that Muslims are under siege, whereas the reality is totally different—Muslims in India have started rebuilding themselves as a creative community.