“To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goals”

-Former President of India Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.

Good Morning. I am sruti from class 10 debating against the motion.
The problem is not about having goals but in creating them. Goals are difficult to be
created for a single country like India with so much diversity in culture, caste, language,
society, religion, class and more. It is a common thought that variety for making decisions are
easy, but just think about it-finally the most strongly put suggestion is taken. This is what
diversity achieves.
The most important example to prove my point is our freedom movement. A country
as small as Britain with a limited population which is 5000 Kms away was able to control a
country as vast and diverse as India comprising a large population for 3 centuries. It is
historically proved that this was because of the diversity and unfriendliness within our nation.
It has even interfered our diverse culture and made this debate be held in English. Thus when
diversity is vast domination is easy.
Globalization has become the talk of the hour. I don’t think any of us have the right to
be talking about globalization when our country is in battle within itself. Kannada-Tamil riots
in Karnataka; non identification of the north-east as Indians; bomb blasts in Hyderabad; the
LTTE fight etc. are common examples.
Untouchability, domination and class conflicts are the features of a diversified nation
like ours which decreases the development of our country. It is shocking to hear the north-
east Indians hate calling themselves as Indians. They feel betrayed that the union government
takes oil from their state (Assam) give nothing in return. Even on a political basis the north-
eastern states are the most diversified and there are most political conflicts and less
development there.
Reservation is still being an important issue after 60 years of independence.
Reservation while forming of the constitution was merely a way to represent the minority and
the depressed classes and was planned to decrease as time passes. But even after 60 years it is
being a necessary to represent our nation completely. This shows that diversity has led to
problems in our parliament.
If the diversity of our nation is a strength, then why isn’t India recognized as a
developed country yet, why hasn’t it improved our international standards in forms of
politics, economics, society and the mentality of the people. Thus the diversity of India is
only weakness and not strength.
Thank You.
 With more than 30 principal in digenous languages and dialects from which to
chose, the Constitutions has recognized English as one of the two official
languages of the Union - at the same time it has affirmed the fundamental right
of sections of citizens having a distinct language and script, to conserve the
same.
In a professedly secular republic, the Chapter of Fundamental Rights has
recognized and protected India's six main religions (and more than 200
"religious persuasions") and by a compact with India's minorities it has also
insulated from legislative and executive incursions the cultural and educational
rights of sections of citizens and minorities (whether based on religion or
language).
The Right to Equality is guaranteed, and the State is prohibited from
discriminating against any citizen on grounds only of race, religion, caste, or
place of birth, and yet discrimination in favour of socially and educationally
backward classes is recognized and encouraged. The textual juxtaposition of
guarantees of equality and authorization of compensatory discrimination feflects
the deep conflict between divergent views on Equality, and varies nations as to
the scope of protective discrimination.
Whilst adopting adult suffrage as the basis for periodic elections to Parliament
and to State Assemblies, and abolishing special electoral rolls based on race,
religion, caste, or sex, the Constitution has provided for reservations of seats in
the House of the People and in the Legislative Assembly of even State for the
Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (for centuries, the outcastes of Hindu
society - reckoned as the world's largest minority).
These seemingly disparate and contradictory provisions were necessitated not only by
social, historical and political considerations, but to help present that "dream of unity"
about which Panditji wrote (his Discovery of Indi) a dream that "has occupied the mind of
India since the dawn of civilization." It is unity amidst diversity that is the touch stone of
our Constitution's philosophy: the provision for a federal structure, with a strong centrist
bias gives add emphasis to this philosophy