Mahatma Gandhi - The conscience of our nation
It has been 141 years since Mahatma Gandhi was born. It is true that changing ideals have diminished the great Indian's effect on our daily lives. But he remains and perhaps will forever remain a symbol that defines this land.
Modest to a fault, Gandhiji would not have liked being idolised as a god or his every word being slavishly obeyed by a nation of sycophants without any understanding or logic.
He simply suggested a few ideas and if you also thought they were good ideas, he only asked that you join him, in however simple a manner, in trying to make those ideas a reality. Somehow he manages to ask us all to join him even to this day.
Mahatma remains the conscience of the nation. We can only hope that, like all consciences, his voice might get muffled most of the times but obeyed when it really matters.
Here are a few glimpses of his presence in our lives.
Text: Sify News Desk
Images: PTI/ AFP
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