Half the continent is a battlefield covering the bones of those who died in defence of competing values (all those wars of religion).

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

Today, in many parts of the country, the identity wars that engulfed India during the 1990s - when religion and caste advanced as the basis of claims to special privileges - seem to have played themselves out.

BBC: Why India is at a crucial crossroads

The worst-case scenario would be a war of religion, and history proves that such wars can't be won.

FORBES: Man with a vision

This is a quickly fading paradigm which has held us in its grip for hundreds if not thousands of years, and has affected every aspect of our human life from politics , economics , health and religion to population migration, wars, and scientific development.

BBC: reith feed