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0471-Th e Gandhi legacy
Mahatma Gandhi was the sole hero of my generation.
Gandhi never outsourced ethics (‘Unknown Gandhi’,
June 30). He dreamt it; he lived it. Gandhi taught us to
invent our own ethical world. Gandhi was, perpetually,
for experiments. Walking, fasting, weaving, printing,
cooking, protesting were all his experiments.
I concede that Gandhi’s leadership did appeal to the
ethics of my generation. Without Gandhi, India, per-
haps, would have become independent earlier. But, it
was Gandhi’s legacy which helped us become a liberal,
democratic nation state.
C.V. Venugopalan,
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RAJMOHAN GANDHI MARK TULLYKANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD VIKRAM SAMPATH
the name of religion.
Sangeeta Kampani,
Delhi.
I feel Gandhian ideals are
becoming increasingly
irrelevant in the present
world. Despite Gandhi
being deifi ed by politicians
unerringly on the days of
his birth and martyrdom,
the true spirit of Gandhian
ideology is seldom remem-
bered by people.
K.V. Raghuram,
On email.
Kancha Ilaiah’s article has
unsurprisingly thrown mud
at Gandhi and glorifi ed
B.R. Ambedkar. Having
been familiar with Ilaiah’s
anti-Hindu fulminations
for a long time, I was not
shocked by his perverse
and distorted assessment of
India’s political scene.
He tends to forget that
among the founding fathers
of the Constitution, along
with Ambedkar, there were
a large number of Hindu
leaders of the time. Th e
curse of untouchability and
casteism could not have
been eradicated without
their active concurrence.
Some dalit thinkers gave
up their anti-Hindu stance
and appreciated pro-dalit
movement emerging in
Hindu society to correct the
wrongs of the past, but die-
hard and radical dalits like
Kancha seem deeply buried
in their negativism.
M. Ratan,
On email.
THE WEEK has come up
with a scholastic re-read-
ing of Gandhi’s life, but
the controversial views of
Vikram Sampath and Ilaiah
were the jarring notes. As
Albert Einstein said, ”Gen-
erations to come will scarce
believe that such a one as
this ever in fl esh and blood
walked up on this earth.”
Raveendranath A.,
On email.
Sampath’s analysis of
Savarkar and Gandhi was
scholarly. It gave me in-
sights into many issues on
which these two great men
had expressed their views,
though diametrically diff er-
ent. It must be noted that
the latter’s views appealed
to the population at that
time, though the former’s
had better ideological foun-
dation. A collaborative mis-
sion by the two would have
laid a better foundation for
free India. Savarkar’s stand
on cultural nationalism
seems to be getting a better
appeal today.
B.N. Gangadhar,
On email.
Th e cover painting of Gan-
dhi has two or three of his
frontal teeth missing.
May be the Gandhi dicta,
though saturated with
truth and wisdom, lacked
teeth because of his soft
approach. Perhaps, the his-