Friday 16 April 2021

 

Gandhi chucked his education and traveled around the country and LEARNT from the subaltern, from the masses. That's why he created the narratives he did.

- Himakiran

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  • Amarjit Anand
    And he did it with selfless attitude.
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  • Aparna Krishnan
    Yes, with no sense of greatness. But thats how india is. Simple people do great things, in simplicity calling it their dharmam. Neither seeking not claiming credit.








  • Raghunandan Tr
    This was at the Sabarmati Ashram. Sadly, the vista of the river from the Ashram is no longer what it used to be during Gandhi's time.
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    • Aparna Krishnan
      you took the photo ?
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    • Raghunandan Tr
      Yes. I visit Sabarmati every time I go to Ahmedabad. Spend some moments of peace there. The best time is in the evening. But as I said, now they have 'developed' the banks of the river and made it more like a canal. Not to my taste. I could do with a little less 'develpment'.
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    • Aparna Krishnan
      so could gandhiji. but who listens these day.
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    • Raghunandan Tr
      They've compressed Gandhiji into a zip file called Swachcha Bharat Abhiyan. As if his only claim to fame was to be like a sanitary inspector. Not that that's not important, but they've forgotten everything else he said.
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    • Aparna Krishnan
      i think sometimes that we simply need to keep a small lamp burning. and protect it from the winds. times have to change for the country to reclaim its inheritence of gandhiji.
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    • Raghunandan Tr
      Not only Gandhi, nearly every visionary who contributed to building this country's values has now been ruthlessly appropriated by someone or the other, their statements twisted and taken out of context, in order to spread hate, narrow mindedness and bigotry.
      You bet times have got to change. The only worry is whether that'll happen in my lifetime, or whether all one can do is to cup one's hands around that sputtering flame.
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    • Aparna Krishnan
      May not be in my lifetime ... i dont even know what crisis will force us to stop, and think, and re-orient.
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    • Aparna Krishnan
      In Gandhiji's own time the tide changed, and the powers that be sidelined him totally. Otherwise the village might have been very different.
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    • Raghunandan Tr
      Mass extinction might do the trick.
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    • Aparna Krishnan
      Things may go worse before they take a turn for the better ...
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  • Aparna Jandhyala Damaraju
    This is what led to many of us getting killed on direct action day . Non violence as foreign policy doesn't work
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  • Padmini Rajaram
    Non violence does not mean giving up !
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  • Aparna Krishnan
    Not at all. It is to fight to the end without hatred in the heart.
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