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.
Gandhiji's greatest achievement was transforming the national movement from an elitist urban metropolis affair to a mass-based popular movement. Herein lies his significance as the leader nonpareil in the freedom struggle, an epithet that was only once more won deservedly by another younger leader, Subhas Chandra Bose who three million East Asians hailed as the 'Netaji'.
Vande Mataram ! Jai Hind !
Written by Sugata Bose
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.
Gandhiji's greatest achievement was transforming the national movement from an elitist urban metropolis affair to a mass-based popular movement. Herein lies his significance as the leader nonpareil in the freedom struggle, an epithet that was only once more won deservedly by another younger leader, Subhas Chandra Bose who three million East Asians hailed as the 'Netaji'.
Vande Mataram ! Jai Hind !
Written by Sugata Bose
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