Paalaguttapalle (Dalitwada) - A Village

 

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.

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  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.