It is believed by the Hindu and the Islamic ideologues that Hinduism and Islam are two separate civilizations. In spite of liberal and neo liberal ideas, thriving democracy and pacing globalization, the true spirit of democracy is conspicuously eluding. Samuel Huntington (1998) has rightly caught up the pulse prevailing in the today's culture and identity conscious world in his Clash of Civilizations. He states that people were more prone to the separatist tendencies i.e. what makes them different from others in a particular context and thus not by what they were? But by what they were not (Huntington 1998:67)? The quest for triumph over the other is thus ingrained in the thought process which leads the different civilizations. So far from eroding the warring religio-cultural identities and promoting the spirit of inclusiveness, the modernity has brought about more jingoistic tendencies to the fore. The reasons behind the recent antagonisms in the space of religio-cultural are not too hard to locate. Some of them can be attributed to the contemporary developments in the sphere of new found assertion in the society, economic dynamism, and power politics and of course realpolitik. But the historical and semi historical causes also resonate. It is all the more true in the Indian context.