Munna Bhai talked about Gandhian philosophy in the movie, ‘Lage Raho Munna Bhai’ in a tapori language and the India’ intellectuals have started contradicting each other on the relevance of Gandhi in modern times.
I remembered Albert Einstein’s statement on Gandhi that, people, one day, will not believe that a man like Gandhi was born in this world’. Today I am finding it right even after only 59 years of his death. People are fighting verbally on his principles, which had global impact at the time when the global world was not even in anybody’s mind.
Anyways, here in CNN IBN blogs, Abhijit Bhattacharya writes in his post Gandhigiri is DEAD... about Gandhi’s three principles and questioning on the relevance of Gandhism in present world.
He writes as ‘Millions could not digest the fact on 30th January 1948 that Mahatma Gandhi was dead. They just could not believe it. I think time has come again for all of us to stand up and accept that Gandhigiri is also dead today. We should stop duping others and ourselves by saying and believing that Gandhi and his principles still exist. Gandhigiri is DEAD’
