India is a vast country. There are people of different religions and castes. The caste system in India is its peculiarity. In no other country of the world is this peculiarity found. The majority of the people in India are Hindus. The second large population in India into the Muslims. Both these communities have been livings in this country for centuries. Besides Muslims, there are Parsis, Sikhs, Jains, Christians and Buddhists in our country.
All these different communities have their own different cultural activities. The cultural activities of the Hindus and the Muslims are entirely different. The Muslims differ from Hindus in many ways. The food and dress habits of both the communities are poles apart. The Hindus are idol worshippers, where as the Muslims do not believe in idols. On account of this difference in the religion their cultural activities are quite different. The marriage and death ceremony of both the communities is different from each other. In our country there is democracy. We have a written constitution. The constitution gives equal light to each community.
Each community has fundamental right to follow and propagate its own religion and do cultural activits. Even among Hindu there is some cultural difference due to caste system. Those who are scheduled caste have their different cultural activities from those of upper castes. There is diversity in cultural activities in India. But even the, on the whole, India has a housogenous culture. There is unity in diversity. Sometimes the cultural activities lead to quarrel between two communities, mostly Hindus and Muslims. It is due to lack of humanitarien outlook among the people. The cultural activities performed by any community give it imputs to unite together. They have their own clubs and associations where they meet together and discuss their common problems and find out the solutions.