A few days back when I was thinking of who can be the face of India, who is a representative of the Nation, only one name kept coming in my mind- Mahatma Gandhi. Today, it’s the death anniversary of the Great Leader so I decided to post about him.
To be frank, I’m not a Gandhian. I also don’t follow Gandhigiri. In fact, on many issues I have views contradicting to that of the Mahatma. Still I admire him. There is something about Mahatma that is fascinating- something that makes us all think.
Gandhi was a mass-leader of India. How could a person reach to the remotest part of the country in the times when TV was not there, Radio was nearly inexistent and people were not so literate to read the Newspapers? Reaching out to the commonest of the common, that’s where the secret of ‘Gandhism’ lies.
He supported industrialization, but also stressed on the need to look after villages- to make them self-sufficient. If at least 1/10th of the people had acted on it, there would have been no big problems due to urbanization and poverty.
Truly there’s so much to explore about his charismatic character and this exploration is a mesmerizing one.
Mahatma too made some mistakes. And biggest of them was when he indulged into politics. He was a great person and a great philosopher and thinker of the world, but was not as great a politician.
He was a “Mahatma” (Great Soul) yet he too was human.
Like every great thing of great people, their mistakes are great and so they face great punishment. But we have no right to blame them, because we are not great.
And in my honest of the opinion I believe that Gandhiji got the punishment for it.
And the punishment didn’t stop at the assassination.
He believed in non-violence, but his own followers became violent after his death.
He believed in forgiveness but his own killer was sentenced to death.
And it didn’t stop there either. Mahatma was assassinated and is being assassinated everyday. His photo-frames are hanged to the wall in several offices and through it he is forced to witness all the corruption. He is present on the currency and is forced to witness all the black-dealings.
To be frank, I’m not a Gandhian. I also don’t follow Gandhigiri. In fact, on many issues I have views contradicting to that of the Mahatma. Still I admire him. There is something about Mahatma that is fascinating- something that makes us all think.
Gandhi was a mass-leader of India. How could a person reach to the remotest part of the country in the times when TV was not there, Radio was nearly inexistent and people were not so literate to read the Newspapers? Reaching out to the commonest of the common, that’s where the secret of ‘Gandhism’ lies.
He supported industrialization, but also stressed on the need to look after villages- to make them self-sufficient. If at least 1/10th of the people had acted on it, there would have been no big problems due to urbanization and poverty.
Truly there’s so much to explore about his charismatic character and this exploration is a mesmerizing one.
Mahatma too made some mistakes. And biggest of them was when he indulged into politics. He was a great person and a great philosopher and thinker of the world, but was not as great a politician.
He was a “Mahatma” (Great Soul) yet he too was human.
Like every great thing of great people, their mistakes are great and so they face great punishment. But we have no right to blame them, because we are not great.
And in my honest of the opinion I believe that Gandhiji got the punishment for it.
And the punishment didn’t stop at the assassination.
He believed in non-violence, but his own followers became violent after his death.
He believed in forgiveness but his own killer was sentenced to death.
And it didn’t stop there either. Mahatma was assassinated and is being assassinated everyday. His photo-frames are hanged to the wall in several offices and through it he is forced to witness all the corruption. He is present on the currency and is forced to witness all the black-dealings.
