Mahatma gandhi family tree
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Was Mahatma Gandhi a true crusader for liberation?-Tribute on 73rd anniversary of Gandhi’s assassination
Exactly 73years ago Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by a Hindu Communal fanatic who made an impact on humanity at large as few individuals ever did in the history of mankind. Whether for good or evil. few men ever on the face of this earth could mobilise or influence people to the extent or manner Gandhi did .Arguably there is no man in this millennium in India who could understand the language or idioms of the masses and relate to them in the depth of Gandhi. He could encompass every part of India to touch the very core of the soul in the masses.
Gandhi has been analyzed in 3 different perspectives .One camp classifies him at the level of a prophet or a great champion of non -violence and thus as a liberator of mankind. This is the dominant view in India and the world. The 2nd one is critical of Gandhi’s opposition to capitalism, caste and landlordism but recognizes Gandhi as a truly anti-British mass leader who won independence for India. The 3rd one is that which
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Did the World not know about Gandhi till the film on him was released?
In an interview to ABP on 29th May, Prime Minister Modi stated that “In the last 75 years, wasn’t it our responsibility to make Mahatma Gandhi known across the world? Forgive me, but nobody knew Mahatma Gandhi ” till the film on him was released in 1982. When he was saying this the ABP persons interviewing him had stony expressions. They did not react to this elementary falsehood being dished out by the PM. The aim of this statement towards the fag end of the prolonged campaign for General Elections is not hard to guess.
Severe criticism of his ten year regime on issues of employment, rising prices, plight of farmers, paper leaks, Agni veer scheme etc. was getting traction. How to divert the attention from these core issues of people was his major concern. This outpouring on Mahatma Gandhi served another function apart from distracting attention from people’s issues; it targeted Nehru and earlier Congress regimes for ignoring the popularization of Gandhi on the
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As John Quincy Adams put it, “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” By this standard, Mahatma Gandhi clearly emerges as one of the most remarkable leaders of all time.
In 1930, Gandhi was named Time magazine’s Man of the Year. Seven decades later, he was second only to Albert Einstein for Person of the Century. On the occasion of Gandhi’s 75th birthday, of course, Einstein paid tribute to Gandhi by noting, “Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.”
Why? Gandhi was essentially the archetypical moral force whose appeal to humanity is both universal and lasting. Originally a timid and taciturn soul, he grew into a paragon of visionary leadership, helping to secure the liberation of a fifth of the world’s population from the rule of the largest empire on earth. As Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote in 1958, “Gandhi was probably the first person in history to lift the love ethic of Jesus above mere interaction between individuals to a powerful and effec
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