In his well-known book, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel P. Huntington implied that peace was an impossible dream. “People are always tempted to divide people into us and them,” he wrote. For example, let us assume that the Saffron Brigade succeeds in creating a Hindutva India after the present face-off with Pakistan is surmounted. Let us imagine an India where everyone abides by the principles of Hindutva. Will it be a peaceful nation? Huntington would say that we would soon start dividing ourselves into us and them, us being the dominant sections and them being the marginalised sections. That’s how human nature is. There is no escape from clashes. Huntington has evidences from history to substantiate his argument. “World War I was the ‘war to end wars’ and to make the world safe for democracy,” he writes. What actually happened, however? Communism and fascism with their various versions of dictatorship. Not democracy as dreamt by
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