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Values cannot be just theoretical. They must find expressions in relationships and all actions, thoughts, feelings and speech. It is impossible to be actually aware of values as distinguished from talking or thinking about values without expressing them in action and behaviour (Burnier 2010, 2). While colonialism and the subsequent emergence of class structure among the third world and developing nations are continuously blamed for the evils of division, partition, conversion, communal and religious violence, it is also a known fact that the so-called de-colonising movements have only further added to the existing divisions and polarisation. Keeping in mind the perspective of the predicament of minority faiths in the subcontinent, this essay will look at the possibility of rebuilding trust and subsequently religious/communal harmony. The emphasis will be on evoking greater individual responsibility to engage in dialogue with the other with compassion and respect within the essentially shared contexts.
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Mencius is a fourth century BCE Confucian thinker.
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Varghese, S. (2021). Re-living History with Karuna: Towards Transforming Life Through Responsible Dialogue. In: Puri, B., Kumar, A. (eds) Re-thinking Religious Pluralism. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9540-0_10
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