So 30th January 2008, 60th death anniversary of man of millennium and this article is tribute to father of our nation. Many of reader may think that this is biased opinion and may be this is. Yesterday I was reading comments on rediff on a article for this sorry day. I do disagree with few thinking of Mahatma but I also agree that I cannot think or see from Mahatma’s level and so I can’t comment on correctness of his thinking. From these comments I learnt how people think of our father of nation. The comments and reason behind these, I think, were due to lack of knowledge or their ego. That’s why I will put some facts here. Many people blame him for partition of INDIA but what I have read shows that he opposed partition and even after partition he was trying to bind two countries again. According to Book “freedom at midnight” Gandhi was planning for trip from Delhi to Lahore on foot. He was planning to take all Hindu refuge from India and come back with all Muslim refuge from Pakistan. And if that would have happened the relation between these two countries must have been better. So how can somebody blame on Gandhi for partition?
Other comments were that he did all for his political benefit and congress glorified him for party benefit but most of the people forgot that he had given up all his wealth, health and even his family for spreading the message of love. None of his family members were/are in politics. I also disagree with people who relate Gandhi to congress. Mahatma Gandhi was for India actually for World.
Few of people still thinks that Gandhi was not awarded by Nobel Prize because the other world thinks that he did nothing for humankind. For them I am quoting some Nobel Laureates and scientist and please take a look at nobelprize website.
"Gandhi was probably the first person in history to lift the love ethic of Jesus above mere interaction between individuals to a powerful and effective social force..."
-Martin luther king
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/press.html
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/articles/gandhi/index.html
About his truthfulness and boldness read his autobiography. I have read three autobiography and the difference between them is: Gandhi’s biography states only events with complete truth (when you read it you will feel it) while other generally gives their achievement and how hard they have tried for that but little details about failure even after trying hard. In “my experiment with truth” you will find his failure in same spirit. If you want to know him I will suggest reading it
My tribute to Mahatma is to clear the doubts of people who think he was no-one
“Generations to come, it may be, will scarcely believe that such a one, as this, ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth”
-Albert Einstein
