Pallavi Iyer has written an interesting and
thought-provoking piece: “EU Politics Could Look to Multiethnic India for Strategies”.
She observes:
“With its eclectic
mix of languages, ethnicities and religions, India, like the European Union, is
the antithesis of the 19th-century European conception of the “nation state”
according to which a single religion, a single language and a common enemy, are
the only “natural” basis for a sustainable political entity”