The sum and substance of this political zero sum game is that it not only hinders the entry of the Musalman into the national mainstream but also stymies his personal well-being through ghettoized thinking. That Muslims should fall prey to this Machiavellian deception packaged as secularism for electoral consumption is the bane of the Indian democracy. It's thus; the cynical secularism of the self-serving politicians that won't allow us to inculcate the spirit and aspirations common to us as the citizens of the whole of India is the hurdle to our nationalism.