Currently prevalent political ideologies have been at pains to demonise India’s first Prime Minister; to use reductive and false narratives for a person mainly for his political ideologies. However, strangely, there has also been an ongoing effort to undermine the ideals that the father of our nation, Gandhiji stood for. While our leaders continue to go through the motions of honouring him with the customary Raj Ghat trips and the garlanding of statues at appropriate occasions, there seems to be a conscious effort to try and steer away from the ideals of inclusiveness, nonviolence and love that the man stood for. Why is this? Are Gandhi's thoughts and ideals just not trendy enough for modern India? Why has it become so fashionable to decry and denounce Gandhiji, his actions and all that he stood for?
Lofty words there from the President of the nation as he described Bapu as the “moral compass” of the nation and its people. In this Independence Day speech he also said that violence has no place in Gandhi’s country.
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