Today I came across an article which questions the Father of the Nation "Mahatma Gandhi's" achievements and contribution to the freedom struggle of India.
The country has worshiped him as a god, praised him as a hero and followed him as a leader.
His struggle for the country and its people is beyond doubt. He motivated the oppressed Indians to raise their voice against the British rule and finally attain freedom. As we all know that he was a preacher of non-violence and satyagraha. He practiced what he preached. The rest of the country followed what he practiced. The philosophy of Satyagraha better known as the "laapha concept" in Munnabhai states that when your enemy fires a blow onto you, you should not retaliate but get ready for one more on the other side. This act of one would earn respect for you in the enemy's heart and would not oppress you any further.
Blowing some dust over our history text books I would reiterate the 1920 Non Cooperation movement. It shook the very foundation of the empire and Independence was very much in sight. But this was called off by Gandhiji due to a few incidents of violence in a few parts of the country. He was not ready to buy the nation's independence with violence. I am not sure whether the crores of Indians were ready for it. But if I were among them I would be game to slit any British throat I find.
Now the debatable questions arise.
Did we learn or earn anything by delaying our Independence by 25 years?
Were our leaders too idealistic?
What would India be now if we were Independent in 1925?
Would we still have a rogue Islamic state threatening peace to our country?
Would we have fought the WW II for Russia?
Was India really not ready for Independence or was the Nation forced to oblige to its leaders?
Would our leaders have been able to pull the strings to form a country as Patel did later?
Did we avoid any violence ?
Did we suffer even more than what a rebellion would have brought us?
So many open ended questions which can be argued for hours with out conclusion.
But one thing is for sure we did not attain Independence through Satyagraha. I don't think that we could induce any respect in the British towards us with the impractical idealogy. This was the perfect philosophy for great speeches and bestseller books but not for crores of starving freedom hungry people. 60 years then I still do not sense any signs of respect from England and after the Yuvraj's 6 sixes things may be even worse.
Nothing much can be done now. Past is past. The new age India is stuck up with new problems. A fucked up Pakistan, Sharad Pawar who is working hard to attain a world record for food inflation , Congress which wants 110% reservations, Mayawati who wants not only statues but her clones as well, NDTV which finds Tharoor's marriage more interesting than floods, Ishant Sharma who wants to be a batsman now, Akshay Kumar's Micromax ad, Nobel Peace( Peas .given the size of his efforts for it) Prize winner Obama passing remarks on Bangalore, the power cuts in Bangalore, BITS Pilani Placement In Charge DasGupta and many more to the never ending list....
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