Indians call him differents names, depending on whom you talk to some people beleive Mahatma Gandhi was a man of extraordinary character,some one who was naturally gifted to inspire the whole world, but this did not in anyway stop a thirty-nine year old Hindu call Nathuram Godse from killing him.
There are some indications that Godse probably kill the 'Great Soul' because he thought Gandhi was harming the Hindus by being friendly to muslims. But whatever case, like any decent human being, Gandhi's life was NOT supposed to end the way it ended - brutally.
One cannot help but imagine the solemn funeral announcement made by Pandit Jawarhalal Nehru on the 30th January 1948, he told a panic striken Indian state 'Friends and Comrades, the light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere. I do not know what to tell you or how to say it. Our beloved leader, Bapu as we call him, the Father of the Nation is no more.'
Millions around the world is seems have been inspired by the powerful words of Gandhi and Gandhism. And it happened that people from around the world would later take the message seriously. Martin Luther King in the United States took it but like Gandhi he was gunned down.
Now the United Nations have decided to declare October 2nd as non-violence day.
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ReplyDeleteAccording to Historians, Godse belonged to a radical group of Hindus who believed that while acceeding to the partition of India, Gandhi gave away too much of India to Pakistan. We know he did it for the sake of peace, but then fundamentalists are fundamentalists - whether Hindu or Muslim or Christian. In fact, my mother keeps reminding me that to a large extent it was the press ( especially the BBC) that prevented large scale massacare between the religions when Gandhi was assasinated - they immediately went on the air and announced that it was indeed a Hindu who had assasinated Gandhi... else if the population had not known this ...would have been much more mayhem.