Mahatma Gandhi was a force, a phenomenon
Happy Birthday once again to the glorious Mahatma - this article is in continuance with the Gandhi Jayanthi celebrations of Indiblog.
I have just finished watching “Gandhi”, the film, and should firstly commend all the actors. It made a lot of sense to watch this movie on the anniversary of a man who in Eintein’s words “generations to come would not believe that such a one in flesh walked on this earth”.
Very true - that among the indisciplined and beastly humans, such a divine character should unfold that imbues golden qualities.
Perhaps the strongest advocate of peace, non-violence and sincerity in recent history - Gandhiji has truly made the world a better place.
Read more to find if his Hindu-Muslim policies were agreeable…
Gandhi’s policy of non-violent non-cooperation was a very potent force to fight the farce of White terrorism that garbed itself in the British empire. The British stood for everything that Gandhi was against.
Gandhi’s will simply broke the British, they had no more locus standi of ruling over any other people after Gandhi exposed the reality of the Raj. Gandhiji exposed to the world the cruelty and inhumanness of the British, he broke the spine of the Raj and the story of Indian Independence is not unjustifiably the one to have kindled in many other nations the spirit of freedom.
But, Gandhi’s policies about Hindu-Muslim unity were extremely lopsided. I believe as do many others that Gandhi expected of the Hindus to give a bit too much leeway, while this was not expected of the Muslims.
But to keep their heads high, the British had to break India - and they did - by carving a Pakistan and a Bangladesh out of it. Gandhi, in all earnestness, was against this. But, to think of it now, after 58 years of Independence, I wonder how it would be if all the people of Pakistan and Bangladesh were also Indians!
Read the earlier piece on Gandhi too.
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