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Munsih Gupta
Jammu October 1
As the whole of the nation has been celebrating 139th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi today, but the celebrations have become more or less a ritual. A holiday is declared in schools, colleges and offices and that is all what Gandhi Jayanti means for many people of the free India.
Bolloywood blockbuster Lage Raho Munnabhai (LRM) has achieved what many a textbook failed to do and has retrieved Gandhian ideology from the recycle bin of public consciousness and keyed it right into its inbox. Infact it has made ‘Gandhigiri’ such a fad that even a website of the same name has sprung up and the blogs are virtually jammed with the comments of a nation that has just reconnected to the Mahatma.
The younger generation still feels how Gandhi ji’s his policy of non-violence could be
practical in this time. Priya a college student says, “The USA and Britain attacked Iraq over having weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). Both the countries have reduced Iraq to rubble. And in this modern world how can we preach non- violence, she asked.
And similar situation was seen in Afghanistan, Vietnam and even in pre independence periods when US dropped the Atomic bomb on Japan during World War –II and this arises a simple query in all sane minds if there is any room for non-violence in the world of where supremacy is the first agenda of any developed nation.
In the present scene of corruption, nepotism, breakdown of law and order, the saner advice of Gandhi is the only thing that can save us from further degradation,” says, Sumit Sharma, a businessman.
‘I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend his honour rather than to remain a helpless witness to her dishonour”, says Mahatma Gandhi.
A great man like Gandhi will remain relevant for all times,” says Ranjeet a Scholar
According to Prof Praveen so far as Gandhiji’s stress on ahimsa (non violence) is
concerned, we find this loosing its sheen in the modern days as even our politicians often make use of muscle power. ‘While Gandhiji died for preaching communal amity and the brotherhood, these two terms seemed to become mirages in these days as the vested interested politicians promote the communal divide and whip up animosities between communities with a view to consolidate their vote banks,’ he further added.
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