Tag: Gandhi

Prayer meetings in your name, at your samadhi, in front of your statues, two minutes of silence – and there after? Go out and kill. In the name of a faith, a caste, a food, a garb, or dissent, difference of opinion, any and every thing that doesn’t conform to “theirs”, to regressive interpretations, and doesn’t surrender to mob in political power. If you were here today they will kill you again for one reason or the other. You only decorate the advertisements, imprint on currency notes, coins and stamps where you just smile or on billboards and government propaganda in the company of those that spread hatred. Your message is relegated to quotes and end notes. A Mahatma they can use to cover and hide their violent acts. Ahimsa for them reads Aham Hinsa. Using your round large glasses for self-serving ends has blurred their sight. Gandhi, would you come back? Come back as a lawyer, a fighter for the oppressed, a messenger of peace, as a sane voice of secular reason and equality? Will you really invoke the true Vaishnavs? If not, I would rather forget the past. Peace.

Image: ‘Gandhi’ by Ranga