THE MAHATMA AT 150 ... 1
This is the sesquicentennial (150th) year of Mahatma Gandhi's advent. Let us offer our homage to the Sage of Sabarmati who like the rishis of old graced this holy land and sanctified it. His contributions are legion and his impact on the world incalculable as would become a transcendent teacher of seminal attributes who could go beyond demarcation of territory to embrace the whole of humanity. Naturally, his local follies were many and we too often conflate the two issues, namely, his contribution to the world and the monumental mistakes committed by him while guiding India through her revolutionary struggle for freedom. This obscures the real Gandhi and either raises him unto a divine platform of supposed infallibility or denigrates him as the culprit of Partition et al. Chauri Chaura, Tripuri, experimentation in continence, picking the wrong horse for the Prime Ministerial post, all these pale into insignificance before the lustre of this frail human being of supreme humanity and monumental folly.
Genius is ever the resultant of diametrically divorced attributes whose harmony necessarily is non-existent. So is the character of Gandhi, full of stupendous contradictions, follies and foibles, yet shining like an effulgent star across the night sky of terrestrial darkness. The beams are for us to gather, for us to wear about our world of infantile dreams and mature into manliness, for us to lead ourselves through 'the night of the dark', and in so doing we will have paid our befitting homage to this rishi of our times the like of which the world sees but once in several millenia. May we rise up to the occasion at this unique moment in the unfolding of the Mahatma's greater life that transcends the bounds of time and space and truly makes him a saint of supreme significance!
Written by Sugata Bose
Genius is ever the resultant of diametrically divorced attributes whose harmony necessarily is non-existent. So is the character of Gandhi, full of stupendous contradictions, follies and foibles, yet shining like an effulgent star across the night sky of terrestrial darkness. The beams are for us to gather, for us to wear about our world of infantile dreams and mature into manliness, for us to lead ourselves through 'the night of the dark', and in so doing we will have paid our befitting homage to this rishi of our times the like of which the world sees but once in several millenia. May we rise up to the occasion at this unique moment in the unfolding of the Mahatma's greater life that transcends the bounds of time and space and truly makes him a saint of supreme significance!
Written by Sugata Bose
Tapan Bhattacharya : In so many incidents as like as Bhagat Sing case his stands were not appropriate for the real freedom fighters. But he projects himself as a BRITISH PRODUCT to demolish the Revolutionery attempts.
Sugata Bose : Keep up the criticism, Tapan Babu, and in Bengali, too, for all to read so that the issue is kept alive.
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