Essay on the Communal Situation and Need for Religious Reforms in India. In the whole Ayodhya episode of recent years, in the flood of statements, no one has perceived that there is a global problem of every religion finding it hard to come to terms with the modern world.
Amity between the communities in the country and absence of friction and tension among them is known as communal harmony.
Communal ideology is a diversion attempting to prevent radical progressive movements. It ties in conveniently with a post-nationalist phase where the middle-class does not wish to see the widening of the social base providing access to power and resources.
Budhism also taught the gospel of love. Yet the world has gone through many wars fought on the basis of religion. The crusades, the partition of India and the massacre that followed, are a few examples where religion disturbed harmony and peace.