Response Essay on Gandhiji

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          “Why Gandhi was wrong - non -violence doesn’t work.” The title of the article is the first thing that catches the attention of the reader. In this article, we can see only one side of the story. The article throws light upon many aspects. Even though Gandhi ji is called the father of our nation that is India, the writer still seems to find something wrong with him. Not to mention that he finds fault in everything this great man has done for our country. This article does have some truth to it but has been used to manipulate the truth. Defying a fact that everyone has considered to be true seems to be a brave move on behalf of the author.

    “If the British hadn’t expired but was still around with a large retinue of colonies, instead of having disposed of its colonies many around the same time as India.” Kudos to the writer for trying to justify how Gandhi Ji has been given a lot of credit but he is highly mistaken. Gandhi Ji knew the weaknesses of the British at the time and used this to his advantage. Not to mention the lack of research by the writer. He needs to know about the Jalan Wala Baug in which many Indians were brutally killed for no rhyme no reason. The British hadn’t collapsed as yet, it collapsed once it lost India as one of its colonies.

  Perhaps the only point in this whole article that I completely agree with is the fact that it was Gandhi Ji’s fault that India and Pakistan are fighting so much. Gandhi could have stopped the partition which wouldn’t have resulted in the blood shed. He ad the power to do so and could do it but he wanted Nehru to become India’s first Prime Minister over Mohammed Ali Jinnah. This was the reason he agreed to the partition. While agreeing to the partition, Gandhi Ji only thought about the present an not about the future. It is because of the partition that so many lives were lost in wars. People were slaughtered and innocent blood was spilt. Where were his principles then? They weren’t implied not in action anymore. Due to his simple decision, India and pakistan have been in a state of war since 1947.

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       The writer very cleverly states that “Yet despite the hypocrisies that have dotted Gandhi’s life, his ideas continue to have a powerful hold on Western imagination.” This is indeed true. Through out the world, people believed in Gandhi Ji’s principles and still do. Gandhi Ji has been a role model to millions of individuals out there. To insult the person who is respected by so many individuals around the world, someone who people look up to, is being relentlessly insulted by someone who fails to understand his principles.

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