First Statement: This man had my Great Uncle killed. My Great Uncle was Bhagat Singh: the first to challenge the British but not the last. ; )
Which statement is worse: “If you don’t do this, I will kill you.” Or “If you don’t do this, I will kill myself?” Gandhi mystified the latter statement by trying to fight fire with polluted water in the garb a saint. Churchill referred to Gandhi as a “half-naked fakir who is constantly obsessed with the ingress and egress of his bodily functions.”
Gandhi had quite a career but little spiritual inclination. He studied law at Oxford and then returned to South Africa, where he had grown up, and secured second-class citizenship for the Indians by helping the Boars smother the Zulu uprisings.
Which statement is worse: “If you don’t do this, I will kill you.” Or “If you don’t do this, I will kill myself?” Gandhi mystified the latter statement by trying to fight fire with polluted water in the garb a saint. Churchill referred to Gandhi as a “half-naked fakir who is constantly obsessed with the ingress and egress of his bodily functions.”
Gandhi had quite a career but little spiritual inclination. He studied law at Oxford and then returned to South Africa, where he had grown up, and secured second-class citizenship for the Indians by helping the Boars smother the Zulu uprisings.
Gandhi then went to India and paraded around as a religious politico all the while eagerly coaxing the British and Lord Montbatton to pass the White Elephant that they had created from multiple principalities and kingdoms into the hands of his political party. His modus operandi entailed promising the 400,000,000 UNTOUCHABLES in India a quantum leap from shit to crap – that is – a “higher” caste that was still at the bottom of the socio-cultural hierarchy. I guess that words can be very pretty tools.
Indira Gandhi commissioned the movie, “Gandhi,” in which the British actor, Ben Kingsley, portrayed the beloved hero. When the director completed the movie, Indira was upset at the result so she banned the movie in “democratic” India. Strange enough, I have seen the movie, and I thought that Ben Kingsley did a wonderful job at portraying Gandhi in the light that Gandhi wanted to portray himself to the world. Meanwhile, I have been told that Gandhi tested his spiritual mettle by sleeping next to 12-year old girls.
I wish my grandfather, a colonel in the Indian army, had not cried for Gandhi after that “wily lawyer” was assassinated. But, I also know that Nehru, Indira’s father, who she betrayed by changing her last name from Nehru to Gandhi for political expediency, was more of a real advocate for the people (even though he had an affair with Montbatton’s wife).
Indira Gandhi commissioned the movie, “Gandhi,” in which the British actor, Ben Kingsley, portrayed the beloved hero. When the director completed the movie, Indira was upset at the result so she banned the movie in “democratic” India. Strange enough, I have seen the movie, and I thought that Ben Kingsley did a wonderful job at portraying Gandhi in the light that Gandhi wanted to portray himself to the world. Meanwhile, I have been told that Gandhi tested his spiritual mettle by sleeping next to 12-year old girls.
I wish my grandfather, a colonel in the Indian army, had not cried for Gandhi after that “wily lawyer” was assassinated. But, I also know that Nehru, Indira’s father, who she betrayed by changing her last name from Nehru to Gandhi for political expediency, was more of a real advocate for the people (even though he had an affair with Montbatton’s wife).
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