RE: [nukkad] Gandhiji & others

[zaverirm <>]

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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
 -- Elbert Hubbard
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Is n't it surprising that available information is
conspicuously silent on Gandjiji's conflicts with Bhagat
Singh and with Subhash Chandra Bose.
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Gandhiji did not have conflict with Bhagat Singh. Both belonged to different
ideologies. There was some chance that Bhagat's life could have been
commuted               for life sentence, had Gandhiji personally intervened
on his behalf with a plea
to the viceroy. Instead of meeting in person, it is alleged that Gandhiji
mailed
or sent by courier his letter, which the viceroy claimed that he received it
after             it was too late to effect any cghange in decision.
In all general probability, viceroy was in no mood to consider clemency.
Towards the last days in prison awaiting execution, Bhagat Singh had taken
to              like Gandhiji's method of non-violent struggle, which he saw
as only possibility
to get rid of the alien rule. Gandhi's method, as he admitted in letters to
his           kins and others caused only momentary scares to the Empire and
were devoid of long         term and permanent solution. Upon his execution,
he was hailed by Gandhiji as patriot
of patriots, but misguided.
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Gandhiji had many differences with Subhash. These became apperant after a
stormy
congress session (I guess at Lahore). Gandhi's will prevailed and Nehru was
declared Congress president much against the majority vote which was in
favour of         Bose. Dejected, Subhash left the party to found his own
Foreward Bloc. I suggest           you to read Subhash's biography by his
friend and renowned
poet and musician Dilip Kumar Roy. The most thrilling part in Subhash's life
was his
decision to farewell ahimsa and chalk out a plan of his choice for future
course of
action. Both the childhood friends met in the serenity of a riverside in
Bengal and
Subhash opens out his mind to Roy, while Roy trying to console him through
his
soft tunes on the violin.
I have a tale to relate how Bose, disguised as wealthy frontier Pathan,
travelled          from Bombay to Peshawar and then on to the mountains of
Afghanistan and overland            to Germany in Europe. Sometime later on
that.
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Also, Hardly much is available on Nehru's power struggle
with Maulana Azaad and with Sardar Patel.
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Nehru never had any power struggle whatsoever with Maulana Azad. Azad was
never a
candidate for any important ministry. Nor his academic or intellectual or
mass
appeal background warranted it. He was given low rated ministry of
education, and           was more than satisfied with it. He held the
portfolio till his death.
With Patel, Nehru had differences, in fact many, not so much over the
problems of
princely states (except Kashmir), but largely over his constant appeasing of
Muslims,
during the terrible days of post-independence. Patel was the kind of man who
really        did not care for the power or position but cared only for the
end results. In order         to achieve what was best for India, he could
have willingly offered his resignation
at any minute and on demand. Frankly, in order to understand these two
personalities,
it is imperative that one knows Gujarati community personally, not by merely
reading
passages written by non-Gujaratis, or even by Gujaratis, but by physical
living contact    with various sections of this community, just the same way
as one can't understand Periyar
without closely and personally knowing Tamilians.
It is impossible that Patel wanted to wrest power from Nehru by any means.
Nor he ever bothered to push his sons/daughters into his shoes. This is
against
Gujarati people's temperament. Not a single chief minister of Gujarat down
from
Jivraj Mehta until today (and there have been almost a dozen) has shown
lowliness
to canvas for his offspring. Nor Narendra Modi will do.
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I will revert after a few days, since tomorrow morning I have to rush to the
airport
early in the morning and the packing chores are yet to be done.........and
no wife
here to ease it out for me!

Rohit Zaveri.



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