SIO-BANGALORE

India is emerging as a formidable power in the world today. It has gained a significant place in science and technology, industrial development, nuclear energy, IT sector and other fields too. This is an outstanding outcome of the combined efforts of innumerable people. This bouquet of different cultures and communities, is unfortunately shadowed by caste conflicts, communal hatred, regional chauvinism. Despite the abundant natural resources and tremendous economic boom the widening gulf between the rich and poor, farmers’ suicides and the starvation deaths are as if not enough causes of concern, we have the separatist, militant and terrorist tendencies too raising their ugly heads. In spite of a strong state machinery, powerful police force, pro active judiciary and vigilant media separatists in the far eastern states, naxalites in the eastern part are gaining grounds. The Marathi-Hindi chauvinism is spilling over. Atrocities, genocides, annihilation of areas and localities are on