From my school days, I was forced to believe that M K Gandhi bought us the freedom, with his charismatic spell of non-violence uprooted the 300+ year old British empire in less than 30 years which is dramatic. I was also preached that his Dandi-March, boycotting foreign goods (clothes) and non-cooperation movement are few of his non-violence weapons which led to freedom India, and he was honored as mahatma (Great soul) by Rabindranath Tagore for the same and also for his simplicity.
His simplicity was often highlighted and one such thing is not wearing shirt, Gandhi denied wearing shirt, when he saw a women with torn clothes, feeling pity for her and on the nation, he offered her, his shirt and stopped wearing shirt from that day onwards, as there were people with no proper clothes to cover them, on the other hand some have many. So by not wearing the shirt, he signaled nation to reduce the consumption for others to get and as a gesture to show the world, to share, which is great, however to cover his torso, he used a long shawl which can be used to stitch 2/3 shirts, which is sarcastic, from that day onwards he also stopped wearing pants/kurtas as they look odd without shirts, and started wearing dhotis which is 8/10 meters long, long enough for 3/4 pants, this way rather decreasing the consumption he increased it bringing more shortage and demand for clothes, I learned from few elderly persons, that many of his followers like sheep following the Sheppard started wearing Dhotis, which increased dhotis price exponentially, leaving more poor with torn dhotis.
One other thing is, Gandhi also restrained from drinking milk, as it is also not available for poor, but he is not able to continue that for a long time, so he made a small amendment, that only cow’s milk is not available to the poor so decided to drink goat’s milk which he thought is abundantly available to poor and needy, maybe? However the milk that he had is something that even richest cannot get the access to it easily, because the Goat that is used to provide milk for Gandhi was bathed by LUX soap twice a day, and the same soap is not used twice, and the goat was fed with cow’s milk, walnut and cashews, and it was never allowed to gaze with other goats nor allowed to eat grass, I pity that goat. I don’t think such a milk is accessible even to someone who born with silver spoon. Though proof of the same is not available in Internet, I read this info in a book written by OSHO, which is authentic.
And his idealism, we all know that he first started is protest against British(rather racism) in South Africa, when he was thrown out of the train while travelling in first class coach, where he started Natal Indian Congress for the welfare of Indians, and fought for right for vote, elimination of land tax discrimination and so on, but remember this is not for the Africans (I’m not going to refer them as Blacks), whose suffer is worse than Indians, and for the same reason, he was attacked in SA, as South Africans had become incensed at his writing and behaviors, history says that’s where he inculcated non-violence, what a joke? Because of this racist behavior he was denied Nobel Price couple of times out of 5 times nominated.
Last but not the least, Gandhi's lecherous thoughts and behaviors, Mr.Bose who spent years with Gandhi wrote, that Gandhi denied sex to his wife for decades while sleeping with other peoples wives, and he also use to beat his wife making mockery of non-violence. It also seems that he had spiritual marriage with two of Brit women who were staying in his ashram and had sex with them he also slept naked with his niece (12 years old) and other women to prove that he could control his manliness. When the same was done by Premananda, Nithyananda and others, they were prosecuted and he got honored as Mahatma. Bal Thackeray questioned the celibacy of Gandhi and lot more in here http://rupeenews.com/2007/12/six-stories-of-mohandas-gandhi-his-failures-sexual-perversion/.
When Gandhi austere clothes/milk for poor, why did not he austere bungalows, and stay in hut? remember when he was assassinated he was in Birla's residence, one of the coziest place in India, at that period.
I don’t think such a crook could have bought independence to India, did Gandhi really fought for independence or just asking for Indians participation in parliament? but history says he got the freedom for us, if not he who else? Come back to check that in my next blog.
When Gandhi austere clothes/milk for poor, why did not he austere bungalows, and stay in hut? remember when he was assassinated he was in Birla's residence, one of the coziest place in India, at that period.
