GANDHI

ALL ICONS HAVE FEET OF CLAY – GANDHI M.K.Gandhi is described as Mahatma. He is the father of the Nation. Our nation is India. Was there no India before him? Why is his birth day a National Holiday? His eldest son wanted to go to England for higher studies. He refused to help him. The unlucky boy became a nuisance and in the end, died like a beggar. The hospital authorities never knew he was Gandhi’s son. ALL THIS HAPPENED BECAUSE HE DID NOT HEAR GANDI’S ADVICE. HOW CAN A FATHER BE SO CRUEL TO HIS OWN SON? As a father he failed miserably and even God will not pardon him. Whoever called Gandhi the father of the Nation, is a foolish hypocrite. He forced his wife to clean the toilet. In those days, people used to sit on a raised platform and expel the faeces, through a hole, into a vessel which is cleaned by scheduled caste untouchables (Harijans). Gandhi wanted to do it by each family to save the Harijans from this dirty work. It is a good idea. But why did he not do it himself? Why force his unwilling wife? He was sexually very active and produced several children. After his wife’s death, he used to sleep naked, with a young girl on each side. Why? Why did he force Acharya Kriplani to abstain from sex with his duly married wife? Within the family he was an autocrat.He never respected the wishes of his wife and children, who liked to live like other people. He wanted to give the Indians an impression that he is a sage (sanyasi, fakir) because Indians revered such people. He was a pretender. Why didn’t he live in a Harijan colony? Why did he accept the hospitality of Birla, a capitalist who ruthlessly exploited the labour? If a bureaucrat had done so, he would be penalized. When the Nation was butchered by Nehru-Mountbatten agreement, by cutting it into three in 1947, Gandhi connived. He could and should have prevented it. He had declared that partition of India would be over his dead body. Why didn’t he fast unto death, as he had done on several other occasions? Because, he wanted to make Nehru the Prime Minister. He eliminated all possible rivals like Subhash Bose and Maulana Azad by skilful manipulations, using his position as virtual dictator of the Congress party. He never allowed the party to become a democratic institution like Labour Party of England, though in everything else Nehru blindly imitated the English He did not love his own children, but loved Nehru more than anything else. Can a fakir love a person like this, blindly, forgetting that he killed the Nation? Godse was a fool and a coward, to kill an old man. Gandhi should have been be exposed, not eliminated by the bullet The power of the media is terrifying. The whole world believe in the image of this man, not ready to examine his true nature, unprejudiced by the media. Socrates is my Guru. Do not accept anything without questioning. Story I came out to see who is there in the portico , calling:”Amma , pashikadu”. She looked Tamil. There were two children in tattered cloths . I called my wife and told her to give something to eat:”They seem to be hungry” The woman muttered:”Kanji is enough.” She went in and brought rice and sambar , from the previous night. The children ate it greedily. The woman was given rice gruel . “There is no work . I can do any work. No money . Only food like this . We are from Tamil “ My wife looked at me . I felt pity :”There is grass all over the garden . Collect it and burn it.” They began work immediately. The next day she was told t do cleaning of kitchen vessels and then sweeping the floor. She took them to the market and all were given shirts and blouse etc. The elder child is a boy nd the younger one a girl. I suggested :”If she stays , we can buy a cow.” My wife knows how to milk the cow, but, alone she cannot do all the work. So within a week a cow came to our house:”See this woman brings luck”, I said. There were a number of cows at home in grandmother’s time . Neighbours would come to buy milk . At the end of the month , payment will be received. I remembered those days and told my wife :”We will use the old cattle shed ; I want a number of cows” “You are a dreamer”, she said. I put the children in the same class , first standard. We invented names for them : Sunil for the boy and Sunita for the girl. Difficulty was for the father’s name. The mother refused to say anything . The name Anna was accepted by the HM. Books and bags were purchased. And , of course, the uniforms . Their mother was very pleased:”You are our God”, she prostrated and touched my feet . Poor woman! Years passed and our cattle population increased considerably , with children , their children etc. etc. The boy was good in his studies . The girl was not good but she sang and danced well. All people referred to them as my children, as I had no issues . During pooram festival , mahouts used to bring the elephants to our house, for leaves of coconut tree . Sunil was fond of elephants and stood close to the mahout . “Boy , do you want t climb on the animal?” Without waiting for the reply , he ordered it to lift one leg. Sunil jumped on to it and , with the help of the mahout , sat on the elephant. After some time, he got down in the same way. The mahout told me:”Sir, it is not easy for a boy. Your boy has the knack ; he can become a mahout like me.”