The Mahatma - His Life was his message
Jan 30 was Mahatma Gandhiji's death anniversary. Over the last couple of decades, many people have started doing Gandhiji bashing as their daytime job. Most of these are armchair intellectuals who just make noise and do very little work.
Mahatma Gandhiji, to me, was the greatest human being ever to lived on this planet. It is truly unbelievable that this frail man believed in "non-violence", something that was not the basis of any other liberation movement around the world and made the whole country rally behind him. His Satyagrahas( truth-seekers) puts to shade to the violent and hugely unpopular methods adopted by some of his contemporaries like Hitler etc.
Even when Hitler's methods were tasting a little bit of success, Gandhiji never swerved from the path he had constructed for himself. He was a man of such remarkable integrity. His tolerance and his understanding of various aspects of human emotions is nothing short of impeccable.
His life was indeed his message. A message that held/holds/will hold relevance even 57 years after his death. The universality of the man has captured the imagination of many an individual
EPICA AWARDS
Jan 30 was Mahatma Gandhiji's death anniversary. Over the last couple of decades, many people have started doing Gandhiji bashing as their daytime job. Most of these are armchair intellectuals who just make noise and do very little work.
Mahatma Gandhiji, to me, was the greatest human being ever to lived on this planet. It is truly unbelievable that this frail man believed in "non-violence", something that was not the basis of any other liberation movement around the world and made the whole country rally behind him. His Satyagrahas( truth-seekers) puts to shade to the violent and hugely unpopular methods adopted by some of his contemporaries like Hitler etc.
Even when Hitler's methods were tasting a little bit of success, Gandhiji never swerved from the path he had constructed for himself. He was a man of such remarkable integrity. His tolerance and his understanding of various aspects of human emotions is nothing short of impeccable.
His life was indeed his message. A message that held/holds/will hold relevance even 57 years after his death. The universality of the man has captured the imagination of many an individual
EPICA AWARDS
I'm an ardent devotee of Mahatma Gandhi. How true, non-violence is the best medicine for all problems.
Posted by
saranyan r |
3:58 PM
Jagan
I always strongly feel that the British Govt. couldn't handle the heat and the fervour that the freedom movement was generating and that was precisley the reason they left and not because they were in shambles.
I am still not sure why they would choose to leave a prosperous country with abundant resources which they were swindling for three hundred years. Even from a military point of view, having a presence in India would have meant great advantage for Britain.
Once again, opinions differ....
Posted by
Sudarshan |
5:28 PM