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Cross cultural divide...

India...A country of many religions, numerous beliefs and such a diversity that many a people outside this land tried hard and in vain to understand, to know , what lies beneath this apparent paradox, how it is possible for all of us to stay there, as a single nation, and in such a harmony which is beyond comprehension for most of the neutral observers. The answer lies in the land, in our land. You have to be there , you have to live there, celebrate the festivals, mourn the tragidies , in collectively to start understanding how do we managed to live together for centuries, when culturally every state, parts within every state are as different as chalk and cheese. I used to wonder, at a very early stage of my life, about those things. As a kid i was, well, a bit different. I used to wonder about lots of things, about religion and why there are so so many of them here, about GOD and life after death. I lived in delhi university for most part of my life and i think in retrospect that it