Challenge for modern world is to accept diversity: Hamid Ansari

Rabat (Morocco), June 02 (ANI): Vice-President Hamid Ansari said the challenge for the modern world is to accept diversity as an existential reality and to configure attitudes and methodologies for dealing with it. Vice President Ansari made the statement while speaking at the Mohammed V University in Morocco on the topic 'Accommodating Diversity in a Globalising World: The Indian Experience'. Addressing the students, he said embracing the traditional concept of tolerance is no longer sufficient and people have to actively accept diversity. He said cultures and customs of India, which has the second largest Muslim population in the world, has been impacted by Muslims who have lived in the country for over a thousand years. Ansari added the framers of the Indian Constitution had the objective of securing civic, political, economic, social and cultural rights as essential ingredients of citizenship with particular emphasis on rights of religious minorities.