Will you come back, Mr. Gandhi?
When Gandhi returned from SA he found more or less the same situation that we live in now. Corruption was rampart and moral values were very low. He diagnosed the moral crisis Indians faced at that time and gave the magic mantra which was tried and tested by him in his childhood and also in South Africa. That mantra was "Worship the Truth". Why did he give this mantra to us?
let us go slightly back in the history and find out. When Robert Clive won entire state of Bengal by attacking Calcutta, his casualty was only 26 British soldiers. Bengal was given to him because Siraj-ud-daula was treachered by his own man Mir Jaffer, who offered his entire Army to Clive just to become next Nawab of Bengal. Had every Hindu or Muslim Bengali come out of their home and fought then the story would have been different. Robert Clive himself has said this later on. He was surprised that Indian people were so frightened that no one ever came out and his army had taken Calcutta on a silver platter.
Similarly, during 1857, none of the Rajas or Nawabs co-operated with each other and the British could gather a huge army compiled of Indians to fight against these Rajas and Nawabs. Indian army fought against their own Indian people and helped the British to recapture the lost ground. the mutiny failed. Few sparks like Tatya and Rani Laxmi still instill courage in our hearts but what about those who could have fought the British tooth and nail then? Where were Scindhias, Peshwas, Gaekwads, Holkers? Why could they not unite? Where were Nawabs? Why could they not join hands with Rajas? Why did they mis-trust their own countrymen and put their faith in British? They were either too afraid or were sold to the British by outright selling their soul to them against their mother-land.
We say India is a great land, and the knowledge before going to anywhere in the world, stayed here. We knew about the planets and their movements centuries before the West found out. We invented the Zero. but morally we became zero. Gandhi, who recognized this. he instilled the value and virtue of The Truth in the minds of people. and even if he got one follower in one thousand Indians he proved that he was right.
Aren't we passing in the same situation in the first half of this century , today? Which politician is non-corrupt? and which neta is not surrounded by people who make money for him and themselves by supporting him and by people displaying mere sycophancy. We blame them, but aren't we paying those government officers or those hidden policemen in order to avoid rules and laws of the land? How many cases have happened in our Army where the army man, in order to get a medal even created fake battle with the "enemy". and How many officers are paying their superiors to get the desired transfer so that he can make more money.
Even Doctors have ceased to become your "family physician". Once they ask you to go for a check up to a certain pathologist, the pathologist gives the so called "border line" result in order to force you to go for more check ups and then more check ups. Once they learn that you have a mediclaim policy your simple boil will cost your insurance company in thousands. and your insurance company, gets the money from you by not passing the claim for repeated illness and by increasing the premium once you have stacked the claim.
Property dealers and builders are creating riots so that they get cheap property and build malls and commercial places, and the ration officer goes on issuing Ration Card, the basic citizen documents to one and all who can pay mere 1000 rupees, without even bothering to check whether the applicant is from Bangladesh or Pakistan. and if you want to delete a name from your Ration Card he will take at-least fifteen days, because you are not paying him.
We are terroized, we are being looted by our own brothers, we try to make two ends meet by what-ever means. Our wants are increased. We have forgotten the basic truth that we require handful of food and cotton or Khadi clothes to wear and we require mear 10x10 Ft. place to stay. We require Air-condition, we require Car, we require Bungalows or flat even though a simple One BHK flat is costing 50 lac and above in Mumbai. We visit shopping mall and buy all sorts of things using our credit card dealers arebecause they offer payment "facility" by charging you 40% Pathani interest yearly. Locals beat few people from other states and they run back to their state in thousands fearing for their life. they become refugees in their own country. The same local becomes a par-prantiya in other states and fear to trael in other states.
The situation is deteriorating day by day. Unless we stick to the same magic mantra. Worship the Truth, the doomsday is not very far. If we fight amongst ourselves what will we do when the Chinese attack us via Bomdilla pass to capture Arunachal Pradesh? They know that they will find many many Mir Jaffers in India, particularly in Bengal and Kerala. What shall we do if and when USA recognizes Kashmir like they did in Kosovo?
Let us walk together in our march towards the truth. Let us reduce our wants and let us not bribe or not use credit cards in order to save us from the "vish-chakra" of the banks. Come what may we can survive like we survived in early thirties to late seventies. Do not worry. Gandhi may not be reborn but his principals are there to follow. Let us not give our roads the name of M.K.Gandhi , but ourselves walk on the road he himself has created for us. That is the only way. We require Iron will of Sardar Patel. A leader who can display this will, will become Indian PM and lead us to the Gandhian way. Others will be doomed. but we must not wait for that day. United we will survive. divided we will fall.
Ashok Chavda.
let us go slightly back in the history and find out. When Robert Clive won entire state of Bengal by attacking Calcutta, his casualty was only 26 British soldiers. Bengal was given to him because Siraj-ud-daula was treachered by his own man Mir Jaffer, who offered his entire Army to Clive just to become next Nawab of Bengal. Had every Hindu or Muslim Bengali come out of their home and fought then the story would have been different. Robert Clive himself has said this later on. He was surprised that Indian people were so frightened that no one ever came out and his army had taken Calcutta on a silver platter.
Similarly, during 1857, none of the Rajas or Nawabs co-operated with each other and the British could gather a huge army compiled of Indians to fight against these Rajas and Nawabs. Indian army fought against their own Indian people and helped the British to recapture the lost ground. the mutiny failed. Few sparks like Tatya and Rani Laxmi still instill courage in our hearts but what about those who could have fought the British tooth and nail then? Where were Scindhias, Peshwas, Gaekwads, Holkers? Why could they not unite? Where were Nawabs? Why could they not join hands with Rajas? Why did they mis-trust their own countrymen and put their faith in British? They were either too afraid or were sold to the British by outright selling their soul to them against their mother-land.
We say India is a great land, and the knowledge before going to anywhere in the world, stayed here. We knew about the planets and their movements centuries before the West found out. We invented the Zero. but morally we became zero. Gandhi, who recognized this. he instilled the value and virtue of The Truth in the minds of people. and even if he got one follower in one thousand Indians he proved that he was right.
Aren't we passing in the same situation in the first half of this century , today? Which politician is non-corrupt? and which neta is not surrounded by people who make money for him and themselves by supporting him and by people displaying mere sycophancy. We blame them, but aren't we paying those government officers or those hidden policemen in order to avoid rules and laws of the land? How many cases have happened in our Army where the army man, in order to get a medal even created fake battle with the "enemy". and How many officers are paying their superiors to get the desired transfer so that he can make more money.
Even Doctors have ceased to become your "family physician". Once they ask you to go for a check up to a certain pathologist, the pathologist gives the so called "border line" result in order to force you to go for more check ups and then more check ups. Once they learn that you have a mediclaim policy your simple boil will cost your insurance company in thousands. and your insurance company, gets the money from you by not passing the claim for repeated illness and by increasing the premium once you have stacked the claim.
Property dealers and builders are creating riots so that they get cheap property and build malls and commercial places, and the ration officer goes on issuing Ration Card, the basic citizen documents to one and all who can pay mere 1000 rupees, without even bothering to check whether the applicant is from Bangladesh or Pakistan. and if you want to delete a name from your Ration Card he will take at-least fifteen days, because you are not paying him.
We are terroized, we are being looted by our own brothers, we try to make two ends meet by what-ever means. Our wants are increased. We have forgotten the basic truth that we require handful of food and cotton or Khadi clothes to wear and we require mear 10x10 Ft. place to stay. We require Air-condition, we require Car, we require Bungalows or flat even though a simple One BHK flat is costing 50 lac and above in Mumbai. We visit shopping mall and buy all sorts of things using our credit card dealers arebecause they offer payment "facility" by charging you 40% Pathani interest yearly. Locals beat few people from other states and they run back to their state in thousands fearing for their life. they become refugees in their own country. The same local becomes a par-prantiya in other states and fear to trael in other states.
The situation is deteriorating day by day. Unless we stick to the same magic mantra. Worship the Truth, the doomsday is not very far. If we fight amongst ourselves what will we do when the Chinese attack us via Bomdilla pass to capture Arunachal Pradesh? They know that they will find many many Mir Jaffers in India, particularly in Bengal and Kerala. What shall we do if and when USA recognizes Kashmir like they did in Kosovo?
Let us walk together in our march towards the truth. Let us reduce our wants and let us not bribe or not use credit cards in order to save us from the "vish-chakra" of the banks. Come what may we can survive like we survived in early thirties to late seventies. Do not worry. Gandhi may not be reborn but his principals are there to follow. Let us not give our roads the name of M.K.Gandhi , but ourselves walk on the road he himself has created for us. That is the only way. We require Iron will of Sardar Patel. A leader who can display this will, will become Indian PM and lead us to the Gandhian way. Others will be doomed. but we must not wait for that day. United we will survive. divided we will fall.
Ashok Chavda.
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