I was watching bits and pieces of film - Lord Mountbatten - Last viceroy of India (something like that). Few things which I felt were
Gandhiji's assasination is really tragic. But what is not tragic is the assasin is not a muslim. (as Mountbatten says in the film when asked is the assasin a hindu "it better be"). Otherwise there could have been more violence in the name of Gandhiji. And in a way it is a good thing that he did not die during one of his innumerable fasts. If he would have died, anger of the people and violence would have turned against British and their families.
Mountbatten tries to put peace between Nehru and Patel at Gandhiji's funeral saying that was Gandhiji's last wish. Is it really true? Was he really so much concerned about India and Indians? Now did I feel like it then or after reading an article in Hindu how he and his family tried to paint him as hero?
But if you think about it, we are not true inheritors of Gandhiji. We call a person gandhi to indicate he is harmless, to some extent coward. May be Munnabhai's gandhigiri has changed that a little bit. And now Anna Hazare's satyagraha - we are saying if we allow this to happen, anybody and everybody will threaten us with their hunger strike. Great!!!
Gandhiji's assasination is really tragic. But what is not tragic is the assasin is not a muslim. (as Mountbatten says in the film when asked is the assasin a hindu "it better be"). Otherwise there could have been more violence in the name of Gandhiji. And in a way it is a good thing that he did not die during one of his innumerable fasts. If he would have died, anger of the people and violence would have turned against British and their families.
Mountbatten tries to put peace between Nehru and Patel at Gandhiji's funeral saying that was Gandhiji's last wish. Is it really true? Was he really so much concerned about India and Indians? Now did I feel like it then or after reading an article in Hindu how he and his family tried to paint him as hero?
But if you think about it, we are not true inheritors of Gandhiji. We call a person gandhi to indicate he is harmless, to some extent coward. May be Munnabhai's gandhigiri has changed that a little bit. And now Anna Hazare's satyagraha - we are saying if we allow this to happen, anybody and everybody will threaten us with their hunger strike. Great!!!
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