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Is it fashionable to disrespect the Mahatma?

Posted in Gandhi on October 2, 2009 | 10 Comments »

Is it fashionable to disrespect the mahatma?
I have always revered Gandhiji. Growing up he was THE role model for ahimsa and sacrifice for the country. In those days all I heard about Gandhiji was his virtues and everyone I knew exalted him. So with this background I shall tell you something that happened when I [...]

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Happy Gandhi Jayanthi!

Posted in Gandhi, Humour. on October 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

(This is not an essay on Gandhi)This evening while channel-surfing we happened upon Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi on AMC and started watching it. Aside from the fact that it is such a wonderful movie that encompasses all nuances of the Mahatma’s personality, and India’s freedom struggle right from Champaran to Jalianwala Bagh to the Quit India [...]

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