Friday, February 8, 2013

Gandhi's Legacy

Some excerpts from the following article with my own views added to each one of them.

http://www.sandeepweb.com/2012/10/04/mahatma-gandhis-true-legacy/

"After Gandhi entered the scene, people lost this practice of critically examining any topic or issue and approaching it from multiple perspectives. The emphasis suddenly shifted in favour of a unilateral political voice which therefore meant that no obstacle should hinder the Mahatma’s leadership".
---this is the single most issue which  is enough for me to dislike Gandhi

"Their stance was that perchance somebody found something to disagree with even one thing that Gandhi said, he or she had to compulsorily suppress its expression. Thus the national atmosphere of discourse quickly became one where nobody could ever think of something different from what Gandhi thought. The minds of the general public—both literate and otherwise—soon became habituated to conformity, which then turned to blind loyalty towards a partisan idea."
-- How can one man be right all the time for almost 40 years? Any other opinion or voice in INC was not heard except Gandhi's. INC's presidents were elected (should I say selected) at Gandhi's will.

"And because he is painted as the man who got us freedom, the logical question arises: did he really get us freedom?"
-- People were so conveniently brain washed during these ~65 years through school history text books, which carried a nice political agenda of our fake Gandhians. Even the present generation, well educated doesn't question just believes what was/is said about Gandhi.

"Gandhi’s heady potions of ahimsa and satyagraha (how truthful was Gandhi to himself is question here) robbed Indians of the incentive to put up a fierce resistance, the kind that actually made the British tremble in their knees, the kind that Subash Bose inspired."
-- India definitely did lack the teeth to bite, even toady!

India was one of the last prominent countries to be decolonised. By the time India got independence Britain had colonies only in small African nations and some Islands with few thousands of populations. So, the question arises gain. Did Gandhi really bring freedom to India or British left India just because they had to?

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