OP-ED: Secularism for an ordinary Indian

India, like Bangladesh, has found unique ways to resolve issues regarding minority communities
In the recent years, there has been much debate about secularism in India, which for some like its democratic credential is apparently in permanent decline. Like the apocryphal scientific assessment that proves that the bumblebee ought not to fly, there is no shortage of friends and foes who seem to be constantly seeking confirmation of their convoluted conviction that secular and democratic values are eroding in India. 

Some even tend to conclude that in a large developing nation with one large majority religious group, the life of several minority groups in India must be akin to that of a Muslim in an Uighur concentration camp in China, or Christians in Pakistan, whose religious structures are routinely vandalized, women are harassed and where members of minority communities live in an environment of heightened faith-based persecution.