Religious violence on the rise in secular India: http://hrw.org/english/docs/1999/09/30/india1626.htm http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/Current_Affairs/Current_affairs.html http://freedomhouse.org/religion/publications/India/summary.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_nationalism [indian nationalism is on the rise as well] Or how about this: http://www.evolvefish.com/fish/product961.html [rise of the religious right in America] Of course there is no turning around now. The question is whether secularism will lead to violence in the future or not. Are we gonna let missionaries have free rein and let them convert people left, right and center? The fundamental question is this: why splinter Nepal even more? We are already divided by caste, ethnicity and politics. Why bring another issue, religion, to the fore? I mean has religion ever been a problem in Nepal? Your post above seems to not adequately address these basic questions. I don't see Nepalis starting a riot like they do in *secular* India in the name of a deity. Nobody wants to see their numbers dwindling--this is especially true for HINDUS, because we don't allow people to enter into our religion. People are only leaving it.