THE MAHATMA AND THE MASSES ... 4
Gandhiji could somehow strike the right chord with the masses of India. His extreme disciplined labour and total identification with the poor masses endeared him to the people in a manner history has rarely borne testimony to. I remember Swami Lokeshwaranandaji saying in a lecture that since the Buddha never has any one in the history of India mustered such popular support. Incidentally, Lokeshwaranandaji himself was a revolutionary who had renounced politics and embraced monasticism.
Written by Sugata Bose
QUESTION TIME
Was Gandhi naive? Was he not intelligent enough to direct massive forces which his vitality, nonetheless, allowed him to harness? Was he plain foolish and had no sense of history although he created it? Was his philosophy flawed and unsuited for a world more complex than his simplistic thinking allowed him to comprehend?
Written by Sugata Bose
THE RIGHT REWRITING OF OUR HISTORY
Our history has to incorporate and integrate all the facets and phases of the freedom movement in a seamless narrative without unduly emphasising any particular strand of it. It is in the right chronicling of history without fear or favour that the citizens can be quickened into patriotic feelings for the nation, a sense of belonging to it that will call out the best elements of service and sacrifice from them for the right regeneration of the motherland.
Written by Sugata Bose
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