Anything that's worth, and singular about India is its plurality. The customs, caste’s, costumes, cuisines, culture, consonants …. the very DNA of Indian philosophy lies in its diversity and acculturation - heterogeneity woven with strands and shades of varying textures and colours. In a fabric of cultural pluralism, we've owned a composite character with an accommodating ethos; wherein we agree to disagree, live and let live; eat and let eat. But how can (in such) a sovereign, secular democracy (and a) ban go together?   © RISHIKESH KB