ramksehrawat
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Without going into the role played in our freedom struggle or post-independence era by Gandhi and Nehru, I am of the view that they had certainly some charisma, because of which they were able to sway the masses world over. Even Nehru-Gandhi baiters (myself included) have to admit at least one thing that these two personalities force us even today to think and read about them. They occupy an important part of our lives even today; we devote our time and energy in thinking about them is no less a charisma. Whatever they did for the country, good or bad, is a very relative issue. For them, they must have chosen the best for themselves and for the country in their judgement according to the prevalent circumstances then. But I am personally of the opinion that they could have done still better if acted prudently as in the case of Kashmir there was no need for Nehru to run to UN when our army was doing a good job to retrieve the occupied territory. Similarly, if you read Gandhi he had a dual personality. His public face was totally different in comparison to his private actions, especially in respect of his own children as well as his blind love for Nehru. These two had formed a sort of nexus to deprive other leaders like Bose and Patel their rightful place in national affairs. But for his blind love for Nehru, it is my personal opinion, that Jinnah could have been handled in a better and different way thus avoiding partition of the country.
They ceased to exist long back but still play an important role in our political as well as day-to-day lives. And why not ? After all we Indians spend most of our lives in thinking of past and judge all actions of present in historical perspective (whether to justify or criticise) but still manage to commit the same mistakes over and over again. I am personally of the view that Gandhi was given much higher pedestal than he really deserved. He was fighting for the independence, OK. But so were others before him and even during his time.
Why to call him mahatma? He was no God ? He was simply a human being in bones and flesh. If he was cleaning the toilets so were others, millions of Indians !!! There were already so many mahatmas in this country whose only contribution is to reduce the Indians to impotency. Our forefathers commited a mistake in raising him to such a high pedestal and we are repeating the same mistake by according the same status to the present gang leader, Sonia Devi as well as the whole khandan before her !!! Everything, from hospitals to graveyards are named after one family. Didn't others do anything for this country ? "Jyada meetha khane se bhi bimari badhti hain aur shayad yehi karan hai congress ke downfall ka".
The fact remains that they did some good and some bad. It was their time, they performed their role. This is our time and we have to perform our role keeping in view the circumstances now as brooding over all the time about them is not going to take us anywhere. They were our elders. Whatever we are today, good or bad, is because of them for which we must thank them without worshipping them like Gods or Mahatmas. They were simply human beings and had their interests to look after too.
I am not a political animal; no love for any particular party but respect good performance and able people. I am of the view that persisting with one person to do something for the country has been our bane. If somebody works for the betterment of masses than only we should give him another chance. Otherwise, we should say "thank you very much". After all we are one billion of whom millions are highly educated provided they come out of their closets.
For the so called higher casts, how long this Mahatma and his children of God (harijans) will keep on tormenting us is not known. But I am sure, one day the people of this country would have to stop believing in "shanti" and right-left cheek policy to get rid of them.
They ceased to exist long back but still play an important role in our political as well as day-to-day lives. And why not ? After all we Indians spend most of our lives in thinking of past and judge all actions of present in historical perspective (whether to justify or criticise) but still manage to commit the same mistakes over and over again. I am personally of the view that Gandhi was given much higher pedestal than he really deserved. He was fighting for the independence, OK. But so were others before him and even during his time.
Why to call him mahatma? He was no God ? He was simply a human being in bones and flesh. If he was cleaning the toilets so were others, millions of Indians !!! There were already so many mahatmas in this country whose only contribution is to reduce the Indians to impotency. Our forefathers commited a mistake in raising him to such a high pedestal and we are repeating the same mistake by according the same status to the present gang leader, Sonia Devi as well as the whole khandan before her !!! Everything, from hospitals to graveyards are named after one family. Didn't others do anything for this country ? "Jyada meetha khane se bhi bimari badhti hain aur shayad yehi karan hai congress ke downfall ka".
The fact remains that they did some good and some bad. It was their time, they performed their role. This is our time and we have to perform our role keeping in view the circumstances now as brooding over all the time about them is not going to take us anywhere. They were our elders. Whatever we are today, good or bad, is because of them for which we must thank them without worshipping them like Gods or Mahatmas. They were simply human beings and had their interests to look after too.
I am not a political animal; no love for any particular party but respect good performance and able people. I am of the view that persisting with one person to do something for the country has been our bane. If somebody works for the betterment of masses than only we should give him another chance. Otherwise, we should say "thank you very much". After all we are one billion of whom millions are highly educated provided they come out of their closets.
For the so called higher casts, how long this Mahatma and his children of God (harijans) will keep on tormenting us is not known. But I am sure, one day the people of this country would have to stop believing in "shanti" and right-left cheek policy to get rid of them.