
Secular nations will survive and prosper, religious republics will falter and eventually fail.
CHENNAI: Secular nations will survive and prosper, religious republics will falter and eventually fail. One system represents tolerance, the other fanaticism. The reason religion should be kept a private matter, out of the purview of the state, is because every individual’s opinion on what is religious and what is not varies from one another.
Feroz Daruwala
Published in The Express Tribune, July 18th, 2011.