EXPOSING GANDHI, THE NAKED
SAINT AND HIS SPIRITUAL
TERRORISM OF NONVIOLENCE
By Sujit Das
“If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
Great
men make great mistakes.
”
---- Sir Karl Raimund Popper (1902 to...
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EXPOSING GANDHI, THE NAKED
SAINT AND HIS SPIRITUAL
TERRORISM OF NONVIOLENCE
By Sujit Das
“If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
Great
men make great mistakes.
”
---- Sir Karl Raimund Popper (1902 to 1994)
Some of us must have seen Richard Attenborough’s film on the life of Gandhi which was first
screened in 1982.
Though many critics say that the film was unfair to Muhammad Ali Jinnah and
Subhas Chandra Bose; but taken as a whole, the film was a faithful portrait of Gandhi.
For the ‘Gandhians’ or ‘Gandhibadis’ (devoted followers of Gandhi), Gandhi was the apostle of
nonviolence, the ultimate realty, another name of truth and a divine ‘avatar’ or incarnation.
Gandhi neither did claim to be a prophet nor even a philosopher.
He was not even interested to
leave a sect behind him after his death.
For Gandhi, ‘Ahimsa’ (non-violence) was not a simple
abstention from violence, but it had much higher, infinitely higher meaning.
It is th
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