TIME TO CELEBRATE THE MAHATMA IN HIS SESQUICENTENNIAL YEAR IN AN ALTERED MANNER
This narrative of Gandhian non-violence as our preeminent feature of nationhood must go. It is high time that it does so in this the sesquicentennial year of the advent of the Mahatma for it has damaged us thus far far too much. The wars with Pakistan and China, all could have gone far more decisively our way had it not been for this handicap the nation suffers from, this hangover of Gandhi and his policies.
Loss of territory, loss of manhood and continued appeasement with fissiparous forces within the nation and those that foment trouble from without have been the net worth of post-independence Project Gandhi. This must stop now once and for all and the kshatriya (martial) spirit of the race once more revived. Whatever is left of it is manifest resplendently in our armed forces who follow the military philosophy quite opposed to what Gandhi taught and thank heavens that it is so. Otherwise, with the Mahatma and his men leading our defence with yarn and salt, we would have been long reduced to nought by our two noxious neighbours, Pakistan and China.
So, let us celebrate the life and times of the Mahatma in the historical perspective while strictly abjuring his idealistic, unreasonable and impossible theories in our conducting of the governance of free India. Let the children of the land be spared the constant inundation of weakening thoughts in their brain in the form of the supposed virtue of non-violence as the means of conducting life in a world that is as yet too brutal to survive that way. Let them be taught martial strength and be so brought up that they grow into disciplined beings capable of voluntary service and sacrifice for the nation to preserve its independence and identity.
Written by Sugata Bose
This narrative of Gandhian non-violence as our preeminent feature of nationhood must go. It is high time that it does so in this the sesquicentennial year of the advent of the Mahatma for it has damaged us thus far far too much. The wars with Pakistan and China, all could have gone far more decisively our way had it not been for this handicap the nation suffers from, this hangover of Gandhi and his policies.
Loss of territory, loss of manhood and continued appeasement with fissiparous forces within the nation and those that foment trouble from without have been the net worth of post-independence Project Gandhi. This must stop now once and for all and the kshatriya (martial) spirit of the race once more revived. Whatever is left of it is manifest resplendently in our armed forces who follow the military philosophy quite opposed to what Gandhi taught and thank heavens that it is so. Otherwise, with the Mahatma and his men leading our defence with yarn and salt, we would have been long reduced to nought by our two noxious neighbours, Pakistan and China.
So, let us celebrate the life and times of the Mahatma in the historical perspective while strictly abjuring his idealistic, unreasonable and impossible theories in our conducting of the governance of free India. Let the children of the land be spared the constant inundation of weakening thoughts in their brain in the form of the supposed virtue of non-violence as the means of conducting life in a world that is as yet too brutal to survive that way. Let them be taught martial strength and be so brought up that they grow into disciplined beings capable of voluntary service and sacrifice for the nation to preserve its independence and identity.
Written by Sugata Bose
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