WHEN THE MAHATMA MADE A MOCKERY OF DHARMA AND PREACHED NON-RESISTANCE TO HINDUS BEING BUTCHERED BY THE MUSLIMS
Foolish and unbecoming of a Mahatma who, though, bore the honorific in name only and not quite by dint of merit or attribute, an address popularised by the admiring poet whose sensibilities and expression thereof could not restrain him from attaching the title thus which, as we now understand, does unwittingly serve to cover much of the addressee's lapses in character and deliberate blunders in national affairs.
Gandhi never would allow Hindus to strike out in self-defence and always attempted his utmost to keep their retaliation in check even as he had nothing whatsoever to say to the Muslims along similar lines to restrain them likewise. For he well knew that his Mahatma status would serve him well to keep his hold on the Hindus but would be an abysmal failure when it came to countering the theological doctrine of the Islamic jihad, practised in whatever hue or form and in whatsoever context. His puerile assertions did work terribly against the interests of the Hindus, their right to self-preservation, as we witness in the Noakhali riots where Hindus were slaughtered indiscriminately and the honour of their womenfolk ravaged to the point when the Mahatma in all his manifest weakness acceded to the perfidious demand of Jinnah to partition the motherland. That much for the Mahatma's morals and no more. The intelligent will be able to decipher this piece of political hieroglyphic and see through the Mahatma's means, motivations and machinations, the trinity corrupting so often the course of the movement for freedom.
Let none anymore be fooled by these simplistic aphorisms of peace and non-violence, of passive resistance and active non-cooperation against the revolutionaries that the Mahatma practised throughout his political tenure from 1917 to 1948 that set the seal on much of India's doom. It is time to wake up from this seven decade-old slumber, to see things in crystal-clear light and arrive at one's own conclusions as to the validity or invalidity of the patriarch's puerile politics oblivious of the exigencies that realpolitik enforces on a nation for its very survival and preservation.
Written by Sugata Bose
Foolish and unbecoming of a Mahatma who, though, bore the honorific in name only and not quite by dint of merit or attribute, an address popularised by the admiring poet whose sensibilities and expression thereof could not restrain him from attaching the title thus which, as we now understand, does unwittingly serve to cover much of the addressee's lapses in character and deliberate blunders in national affairs.
Gandhi never would allow Hindus to strike out in self-defence and always attempted his utmost to keep their retaliation in check even as he had nothing whatsoever to say to the Muslims along similar lines to restrain them likewise. For he well knew that his Mahatma status would serve him well to keep his hold on the Hindus but would be an abysmal failure when it came to countering the theological doctrine of the Islamic jihad, practised in whatever hue or form and in whatsoever context. His puerile assertions did work terribly against the interests of the Hindus, their right to self-preservation, as we witness in the Noakhali riots where Hindus were slaughtered indiscriminately and the honour of their womenfolk ravaged to the point when the Mahatma in all his manifest weakness acceded to the perfidious demand of Jinnah to partition the motherland. That much for the Mahatma's morals and no more. The intelligent will be able to decipher this piece of political hieroglyphic and see through the Mahatma's means, motivations and machinations, the trinity corrupting so often the course of the movement for freedom.
Let none anymore be fooled by these simplistic aphorisms of peace and non-violence, of passive resistance and active non-cooperation against the revolutionaries that the Mahatma practised throughout his political tenure from 1917 to 1948 that set the seal on much of India's doom. It is time to wake up from this seven decade-old slumber, to see things in crystal-clear light and arrive at one's own conclusions as to the validity or invalidity of the patriarch's puerile politics oblivious of the exigencies that realpolitik enforces on a nation for its very survival and preservation.
Written by Sugata Bose
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