Most of the harmful things which we see today(dynamite, nuclear bombs etc) were discovered with noble intentions, i.e. to serve the humanity, but later on they turned out to be the biggest threats for the existence of the humanity itself. Same is the case with religion.
By saying "banning religion from public sphere" I am not saying to ban the religion itself but like some countries of Europe, most notably France, we should make a clear distinction between the roles of the state in religious matters. It means the government shouldn't have anything related with any religion or sect. (Scrapping of hajj subsidy is one example).
India is a secular nation but here the notion of secularism is different from the classical one (originally if a nation says that it is secular than it is assumed that the government of that country should not interfere or propagate any religious activities, there is a clear separation between religion and politics but in Indian secularism, the line which divides religion from politics is missing. On the contrary the government is suppose to treat all the religions equally) I hope this definition of Indian secularism explains a lot what I meant “public sphere”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secularism_in_India
Indian government in the name of social welfare has in fact made itself ubiquitous, all pervasive, indispensable and unputdownable in all spheres of a person’s life, let alone religion and in the race of appeasing one particular community the politicians can easily pull the rug from under the other’s feet.
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