Who Says India Is Not Secular? Do Not Misinterpret It

Had Hinduism been indifferent and narrow, The American transcendentalists would not have Adapted to, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Had it been, they would have themselves discerned it, Indian thought and philosophy Is not like that, Those who interpret it otherwise Are not aware of Indian religion and spirituality, Ask you W.B.Yeats, Ask you T.S.Eliot Then say to me. Where did Vivekananda give his lecture first Outside India, Was it not Chicago in 1998 And who were in his audience, The Indians or the Americans, So say you Without knowing its history And its upheavals and repercussions, Do not misinterpret India in such a way That people fail to understand it completely, Do not make the foreigners Misread it After sending false information After spreading false rumours, Have the minority institutions been vandalized, Were not the places broken in the past, Do you not know The course of its history?