If India ever ends up with just one religion, one God, one language, one ration card, and one election — the only ones left to rule will be the RSS and the BJP.
And when that day comes, it will no longer be a democracy. It will be a cultural dictatorship in the guise of nationalism.
India was never meant to be homogenous. It was never meant to speak just one language, pray to just one God, or follow one political ideology. Our strength has always been in our chaos — our diversity of languages, beliefs, cuisines, festivals, clothes, and cultures.
This idea of “oneness” sounds noble until you realize it’s being pushed not for unity, but for control. One language means silencing others. One religion means erasing centuries of coexisting faiths. One election means one narrative, one power centre, and eventually — one supreme leader.
The dream of “One Nation, One ___” is not about integration. It is about domination. And behind that dream stands an organization that was never part of India’s freedom struggle — the RSS — now emboldened by its political wing, the BJP.
Ask yourself: in this imagined India of uniformity, who decides what language we speak? What God we pray to? What food we eat? What clothes we wear? And who we vote for?
Because when everything becomes “One,” the people who are “Different” simply disappear — from textbooks, from ballots, from memory, and eventually from existence.
Uniformity is not unity. It is erasure.
And erasure, in a country as diverse as ours, is nothing short of a cultural genocide.