Friday, May 17, 2019

Gandhi isn't turning in his grave.




The knives are out still  for the toothless old man decades after his death.
No end to postmortems as to find out what the pacifist stood for, his rights and wrongs, his oddities and eccentricities.
Upon him the curse of being judged by each generation. It has to be so since his devotees have bestowed upon him the title 'Mahatma'.
The stooping, bare-bodied wiry frame of a man who spearheaded the freedom struggle is revered and reviled understood and misread...
The younger generation find him outdated and boring.
The Hindu supramacits consider him a traitor for advocating Hindu-Muslim unity. The reason why they are currently involved in a bid to salvage his assassin Nathuram Godse from History's landfill and sanitize him. The refrain is Godse killed Gandhi out of his love for the country.  They are fabricating History. They are turning the tables on Gandhi. But Gandhi isn't turning in his grave. It would be so unlike of him. We aren't losing sleep over what is taking place around us. The right wing is having their way. We seem to have lost our way.

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