This is basically a poll thread to ascertain how majority of Indians see Mr Gandhi's legacy.I know the direction he wants to take this discussion and somehow bring (and blame) Modi here but that is simply not going to work. Even we bhakts don't think about Modi so much as my dear friend.
No one is alive now when Gandhi ji was present. So we often have to go by what history books say. And by going by those history books, he seemed like a decent man. Wonder why Nehru didn't offer such a noble man the PM role after Britisher's left and hogged the limelight himself.
And many you hold dear too.
He was testing his Nigrahan Shakti AKA celibacy powers.
Why so? Gandhi ji had more class bcoz he gave Muslim's a separate land in 1947 and demanded India with majority of Hindus to remain secular?
You always tend to forget Gujrat riots, drama like surgical strikes too. Also his anti Muslim rhetoric. It's not just Kashmir status only.
Most of us know who.
Al-Qaeda would have elected OBL each and every time if he were to contest election just as Hindutva would elect Modi.
Al Qaeda is not a nation. You are comparing Apples to Oranges.
I agree with this.
He had phases of his life which were very questionable. As he grew old, he seems to have changed his views on many things. He only became Maha-atma much later in his life. Before that he was just an Average-Atma. Your typical Indian who went abroad to try his luck and make it big.
It is not you but your jealousy and helplessness speaking.
Okay, thank you for that amazing information and comparison. You won my heart
What are you even talking about? Whom did I defend and whose blatant bigotry?
Ah, the confusion continues. Let me break it down for you in simpler terms. This is a forum, and a direct quote doesn’t mean I'm singling you out. Your comment was merely a convenient example to illustrate an important point, certainly not an attempt to make you feel loved.What? You quoted me directly...so how was that not directed to me?
What are you even talking about? Whom did I defend and whose blatant bigotry?
Triggered that i exposed the dumbness of your argument. You are telling us Hitler is bad because he gased jews but what about Muslim Killings in Gujrat riots.
He was an idiot who set India back a country by a couple of decades with his drama.
Read that over X. But no reference was given, so I can't confirm it's true or not.
His eldest son even converted to Islam for a while to antagonise his father. By the way, he was a miserable father. That much is for sure going by the way how he raised his children.
Indians don’t hide Gandhi’s love for Pakistan and Muslims over Dharmic religion, it was just not well known , Punjabis and Bengalis always knew it, now everyone knows it and hence why the downfall of so called Mahatma.
Gandhi was one among the many popular freedom fighters in India. He had his own way to dealing with an occupying force. His way is extreme pacifism and non-violence. Many of his followers were killed by British in following the path made by Gandhi.
While the followers of Gandhi were dying and beaten up at the hands of British forces, Gandhi used to be put in prison where he continued his fast and non-violence ways. Gandhi was never an existential threat to Brit rule. He was more of a nuisance for them.
Whether Gandhi's non-violent ways worked or not, it can be debated for years. But the British were leaving India anyway after the WW2. Following independence, the leftist historians have ensured that Gandhi was made the face of the Indian freedom struggle. Indian Congress party still milk Gandhi's name in elections. As kids we were singing songs on how Gandhi gave us freedom from oppressive British rule
The brainwashing starts early.
Gandhi is a chocolate boy for globalist and woke leftist brigade. Hollywood is part of it. They will prop up anyone who is against white tyranny. Gandhi's involvement in freedom struggle against white British is a perfect setup for Woke Westerners.
He was a weirdo. He was doing experiments on self restraint with his female followers. One thing I have to give for MKG is that he was willing to learn and upgrade his morality.
Gandhi is a chocolate boy for globalist and woke leftist brigade. Hollywood is part of it. They will prop up anyone who is against white tyranny. Gandhi's involvement in freedom struggle against white British is a perfect setup for Woke Westerners.
As I said Gandhi's tactics would not have worked had Britain became a super power after WW2 instead of Soviets and USA. All Indians would be rallying behind Rahul Gandhi now and getting our behinds whooped everyday by Brit officers while RaGa would be in prison watching Chota Bheem and spinning his Charkha.
It depends on which side you are looking at him from. If you are a globalist and a tree hugging pacifist types, then Gandhi is right in your alley. The West in the past 50 or so years have been shifting to leftist principles. So Gandhi would appeal to them.That doesn't make sense. Hindus now despise him because he was a spindly pacifist who portrayed their people as pushovers, yet the globalist woke left - according to you - love him because he stood up to white tyranny. Which is it?
His worldwide admiration comes from the fact that West prefers that non western nations are pacifist and they only remain with nukes and best missile systems.
