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Now they have once more made their presence felt in West Bengal. They were blamed, probably accurately, for a recent attempt on the life of chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.
The rise of the Maoists in the s and beyond owes much to the work of a former schoolteacher named Kondapalli Seetaramaiah. He was the head of the Peoples War Group which, especially in Andhra Pradesh, mounted a series of daring attacks on railway stations and police camps.
The police finally arrested KS as he was known ; but then he feigned illness and was admitted to hospital, from where he escaped. It took the police two years to recapture Seetaramaiah. A journalist later asked him what he had done when on the run. Thus did this Maoist show his contempt for a man acknowledged to be the Father of the Indian Nation. Extremists despise Gandhi—what, however, of the vital centre? For much of the time that India has been an independent nation, the government in New Delhi has been run by the Congress party, to which Gandhi himself belonged.
On the day of independence, 15 August , the Mahatma was striving for communal peace in Kolkata. But now there will be no end to your being tested. Do not fall prey to the lure of wealth. May God help you! You are there to serve the villages and the poor. The first betrayal, perhaps, was the abandonment of the villages and the poor. Through the s and the s, the economic policy of the state focused on the urban-industrial sector. Agriculture and crafts were neglected; so, even more grievously, was primary education.
However, from the s, politicians began abusing their position to enrich themselves and their families. A global survey carried out by Gallup in found that the lack of confidence in politicians was highest in India.
What remains of Gandhi and Gandhism in India today? Before answering this question, let me note that like the Buddha, Gandhi was born in the Indian subcontinent but does not belong to this land alone. Within India, meanwhile, a Gandhian tradition exists outside politics. There is a vigorous environmental movement, which has campaigned against the excesses of industrial development and worked to promote renewable energy and small-scale irrigation systems.
The Gandhian influence is also present in the feminist and human rights movements, where it co-exists with tendencies drawing inspiration from other, more conventionally left-wing political traditions. Doctors and teachers inspired by Gandhi leave their city homes to run clinics and schools in the countryside. Where the majority hoard their wealth or spend it on jewellery and foreign holidays, there are some titans who have given away vast amounts of money to promote primary education and transparency in governance.
What should remain of Gandhi and Gandhism in the world today? Sixty-one years after his death, some of his teachings are plainly irrelevant. For example, his ideas on food his diet consisted chiefly of nuts and fruits and boiled vegetables and sex he imposed a strict celibacy on his followers can hardly find favour with the majority of humans.
The first is the environment. The economic rise of China and India has brought a long suppressed, and quintessentially Gandhian, question to the fore: How much should a person consume? So long as the West had a monopoly on modern lifestyles, the question simply did not arise. But if most Chinese and most Indians come, like most Americans and most Englishmen, to own and drive a car, this will place unbearable burdens on the earth.
Back in , Gandhi had warned about the unsustainability, on the global scale, of Western patterns of production and consumption. If an entire nation of million took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.
Gandhi believed that no religion had a monopoly on the truth.
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