Supreme Court....whose country is this afterall?

In an apparent reference to recent violence against north Indians in Mumbai, Justice Katju, who wrote the judgment, said: “India is not an association or confederation of States. It is a Union of States and there is only one nationality that is India. Hence every Indian has a right to go anywhere in India, to settle anywhere and work and do business of his choice in any part of India, peacefully. We are one nation and must respect each other and should have tolerance.”
The Bench said: “Since India is a country of great diversity, it is absolutely essential, if we wish to keep our country united, to have tolerance and respect for all communities and sects. It was due to the wisdom of our founding fathers that we have a Constitution which is secular in character and which caters to the tremendous diversity in our country.”
Quoting a couplet from Tiruvallur’s Tamil classic Tirukkural, which says: “That alone can be called a prosperous country which is free from separatist tendencies and people who harm its sovereignty,” the works of Tamil poets Subramania Bharati and Kaniyan Poonkundranar, and the Mahabharata, the Bench underlined the need for tolerance in society.
In the instant case, the Bench said: “One should not be touchy about a short restriction when it is being done out of respect for the sentiments of a particular section of society. The great Emperor Akbar himself used to remain a vegetarian for a few days every week out of respect for the vegetarian section of Indian society and out of respect for his Hindu wife. We too should have a similar respect for the sentiments for others, even if they are a minority sect.”-- RegardsChaudhary Sandeep Datta