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Mahatma Gandhi

Unfinished Agenda

Mahatma Gandhi, the greatest man of the twentieth century, often talked about poverty. For the prophet of non-violence, poverty was the worst form of violence.

Sedition and freedom

Even those airing grievances against the government’s handling of the Covid pandemic were charged with sedition. Scrapping the sedition law brooks no delay.

Gandhi’s Path

Gandhi‘s death snapped the dialectic link between politics and his Constructive Programme. While contemporary India is vastly different from Gandhi‘s times, many of his fundamental concerns are alive. Today‘s India is more prosperous, but also vastly more unequal.

Pursuit of Excellence

The practice of killing excellence by rating everyone as ‘outstanding,‘ starting with schools, is continued right up to the higher levels of bureaucracy, where most employees, even the undeserving ones, get the ‘outstanding‘ tag, resulting in bad eggs making it to the top echelons and damaging the venerable institutions which they serve.

Gandhi and dress

Gandhi's reasons for the metamorphoses were contextual, psychological and assertively political for a reason ~and that reason was not to disparage Western clothing sensibilities as inferior, amoral or scandalous. Gandhi's insistence on 'Indianness' was not reflective of reverse-superiority or the 'uncivilisationalness' of the West, but in the more profound tenets of equality for all, without discrimination

Gandhi and politics

Gandhi, like Hobbes and Machiavelli, recognized that the pursuit of power is a basic human characteristic. All political institutions are merely instruments for the pursuit of power, whether directly or by the indirect manner in which they maintain and foster the ownership of property and provide the psychological incentives that they are connected with power