[nukkad] Gandhian Blunders : 1

[Rohit Zaveri <>]

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Verdict is Yours : 69Many Hail Mahatma Gandhi as the sole deliverer of freedom 
to India from the British rule while many blame him for committing several 
mistakes, many of them very serious when he dealt with the problems related to 
the call of Pakistan and tragic situation of Hindu-Muslim unity.

Personally, a various points occur to me which I believe have caused much 
damage to India as a nation for which Gandhi alone was largely responsible. Let 
me relate a few points in this mail.

1) Gandhi always preached one-sided sermon of non-violence. As we all know and 
agree you can't clap with one hand. For clapping both hands are required. In 
his one-sided preachings he often mismeaned the tenets of Budhism, Jainism, 
Sikhism and often knowingly twisted the utterances of Gautam Budha, Vardhman 
Mahavir, Guru Nanak, Sant Kabir. His infatuation with non-violence and communal 
unity very much weakened the valorous spirit of Hindus and in the run of time 
emboldened the fanatic elements of Muslims beyond limits.

2) Gandhi and with him some of his disciples misinterpreted and misconstrued 
the theme of non-violence and began to look upon strength as violence. 
Surrender before the slayers was glorified by them as non-violence, while use 
of strength against the aggressors was condemned by them as violence. In his 
heydays, this certainly killed the heroic spirit of the nation.

3) Gandhi, the apostle of non-violence, on his return from South Africa, toured 
the country and recruited Indians as soldiers for the British Government to 
fight in the First World War so that they might kill the germans. This act of 
violence committed by the captain of non-violence astonished the people of 
India, but he was neither astonished nor ashamed nor regretful of his conduct. 

4) Hundreds of peaceful, armless and harmless Indian freedom fighters were 
massacred in the Jallianwala carnage in Amritsar in 1919. This brutal killings 
were ordered by General Dyer. People across India started an agitation against 
Dyer and demanded his prosecution. Gandhiji in a move that took everyone off 
guard refused to be a party to any such agitation for the prosecution of Gen. 
Dyer, because prosecution of any person, though a butcher of human beings, 
smacked of violence to him !

5) The people of India across the length and breadth, appealed to Gandhiji to 
intercede on behalf of Bhagat Singh and plead with the British Government for 
remission of death sentence. But he rejected the appeal of the masses, whom he 
fondly called 'Janata Janardan', on the plea that he could not side with 
violence. Had he intervened, there was good probability that Bhagat Singh and 
his companions could have been saved from the noose of the gallows, because the 
British Government had given such insinuations. While Bhagat Singh's life was 
in the last hours, the Indian soldiers, painstakingly recruited by Gandhi were 
killing Germans on their very soil ! And he saw no violence in it !!

Ah ........... I can go on and on ...... but prefer to take a break here only 
to continue later with some one hundred plus blunders and anomolies committed 
by the Father of the Nation.

Rohit Zaveri.








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