{"id":3043,"date":"2010-10-02T06:17:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T00:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/?p=3043"},"modified":"2013-11-14T11:36:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T06:06:32","slug":"why-do-some-people-hate-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2010\/politics\/why-do-some-people-hate-gandhi.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do some people hate Gandhi?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s hard to imagine what anyone can have against Gandhi. He was entirely harmless. He didn’t hold political power and never forced anyone to follow his beliefs. One might question some of his principles, but no one who’s read “My experiments with Truth” can deny his sincerity in following them.<\/p>\n

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Gandhi – Violence leads to more violence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And yet with his birthday in 2010, there are those with whom Gandhi has fallen entirely out of fashion. Mainly with India’s right wing (and before anyone complains, that’s not<\/em> an insult. I’m using the phrase “right wing” as generally understood and as defined by Wikipedia<\/a>. So don’t take offence when none is intended.)<\/p>\n

I’ve heard him called a rogue, the destroyer of India, a traitor, a betrayer and what not. Of course, the virulent right wing elements are a minority compared to the rest. But if you listen to these people, you get the picture that Gandhi had horns and slithered around on his belly.<\/p>\n

There are many who idolize Nathuram Godse – the crazy fellow who was against Gandhi and who assassinated a defenseless man with a gun. To me, actions speak far louder than words. Never mind what Godse stood for. If the end result is the killing of a someone who never preached violence and never harmed him or anyone else, I want no part of what he was smoking. Such people point to the speech he gave in his defense<\/a>. Even a cursory reading leads me to wonder if was entirely sane. Here’s a small extract:<\/p>\n

All this reading and thinking led me to believe it was my first duty to serve Hindudom and Hindus both as a patriot and as a world citizen. To secure the freedom and to safeguard the just interests of some thirty crores (300 million) of Hindus would automatically constitute the freedom and the well-being of all India, one fifth of human race.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Say what? You mean as long as Hindus are happy, it doesn’t matter if Buddhists, Sikhs, Christians, Parsis, Muslims and Jains are miserable eh? I get the feeling Godse would have gladly sided with Hitler. After all, as long as the non Jews and fully naturalized Germans were happy, then automatically Germany will be happy no?<\/p>\n

Here’s another beauty:<\/p>\n

This conviction led me naturally to devote myself to the Hindu Sanghtanist ideology \u00a0and programme, which alone, I came to believe<\/strong>, could win and preserve the national independence of Hindustan, my Motherland, and enable her to render true service to humanity as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Beware of the man who recommends only one way of thinking to the exclusion all others. He’s either god himself, or a fanatic.<\/p>\n

Now I may not agree with everything Gandhi said. I’m not sure ahimsa<\/em> or non violence would have helped the Jews against Hitler for example and he himself agreed that if ever violence were acceptable it would be against an evil of that magnitude. But that doesn’t mean I don’t understand his main argument. That violence breeds more violence. Even violence for a just cause. It’s a double edged sword that merely deflects the injustice to another group of people if at all.<\/p>\n

It’s ironic that when the entire world admires Gandhi and the president of the US has a portrait of him in his office, he’s attacked most in his own country. Gandhi was a man who led a movement of the kind the world has never seen. As a member of humanity, I gotta admire the guy irrespective of his nationality.<\/p>\n

Interestingly I’ve noticed that the same people who hate Gandhi also hate Mother Teresa<\/a>! One day I’d like to find out the real cause of this connection. It’s so absurd and out of whack that the explanation must be equally strange. Perhaps someone can enlighten me…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How the Hindu Right Wing invariably dislikes Gandhi, while some even hate him. Isn’t it puzzling how someone can hate a person who preached peace?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-3043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-right-wing-extremism"],"yoast_head":"\nWhy do some people hate Gandhi?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How the Hindu Right Wing invariably dislikes Gandhi, while some even hate him. 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