Op-Ed

We’re poor. We’re illiterate. We’re still traditional. Too many religions, too many languages, too many ethnicities.  What do we have that the extremists repeatedly make us the target of their terrorism?  

Those very things — poverty, illiteracy, tradition, multiple religions, ethnicities and languages. Not because they are a fertile breeding ground for radical recruits but because India is finding workable, affordable and replicable solutions which will help it overcome the same problems. Those solutions are being emulated by emer...