True Secularism

Indian President, today, condemned the killing of Mr Suryanarayan-an Indian engineer- by the Taliban forces in Afghanistan. No President of any country needs to react to a single death from his country with such proportion unless he is a C.E.O. of that country like the American President; or unless he is Mr Abdul Kalam.

This is not the first time when this man has spoken out about things when all his predecessors would have chosen to remain silent. He has not allowed the so called, either explicitly or implicitly, diplomatic Do’s and Don’ts of his high office to overshadow, what he must be considering, as his basic tenets about humanity. Isn’t this secularism in its true sense ? Does secularism need to be free only from the religious imperatives; does it not need to be free from all temporal imperatives?

I think he represents our country’s conscience and may be he needs to be made the next Secretary General of the United Nations Organization so that he can effectively represent our global conscience.