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Bridge for Harmony: Narendra Modi

This book titled Samajik Samarasata will be evaluated by
different people in different ways. Some of them will feel it
a stream of contemplation, and others, a social agenda. Some
people will feel it a literary work, while others, a collection of
diverse views. This book will produce different types of
sentiments and experiences in different people; however, as far
as I think, it is neither a literary work, nor a social agenda. I
think that this entire work has evolved from a single idea. This
book is the collection of thoughts that descended on my mind
from time to time. In my inner-self flows an eternal and
continuous stream of dialogues and this book is just a tiny
glimpse of that.

In this country, a class of people has come to the fore that is
bent upon criticizing the society. These people think that
everything in the society is negative. A class is working on this
idea. It is one of the causes of problems being faced by this
country. Besides this class, there is a class of people that says all
this is good, there cannot be any shortcoming anywhere. I am
of the view that the social condition of the country is being
assessed somewhere between these two extreme views.
Different people have tried to evaluate the age-old social
tradition and system which is 5,000 years old. Some people went
for the radical path, and they decided that all that is old should
be given up, should be eradicated. They said that new
construction will be undertaken. Many have put all their might
to retain the old system because they felt it was all essential.