( 1 ) THE anti-Semitic Nazi genocide at Dachau, bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz, the partition carnage, the Somnath pillage, the Godhra massacre, inquisitions, crusades, purges, ethnic cleansing, untouchability and slavery are but some of the shameful but recurring episodes in human history; Illustrations of mans inhumanity to others; of intolerance of the pervasive diversity of the human condition; dehumanizing examples of mankinds irrational and emotionally sterile response to aspects of others that are disagreeable; precedents of brutalizing dissent of colour, faith, dogma, race, ethnic origins, religious persuasions, descent, cultural practices or other insular indices of the human condition.

( 2 ) WE enjoy a shared membership of the human race and our future depends on tolerance of distinctions that mark the richness and diversity of the plural global community of man. Faith, race, religion, dogma or culture are not wholly homogeneous attributes. There are several clear subtle and evolving variations within the same general milieu.

( 3 ) IN his preface to his book1 Prof. Sen points out:"indeed, many of the conflicts and barbarities in the world are sustained through the illusion

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