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Mr Jagannathan has dispassionately analysed all issues relating to assassination of “Mahatma” Gandhi and his assassin Nathuram Godse. It is not quite clear how and when M.K.Gandhi got the title “Mahatma”. But looking back it certainly looks amateurish. While it cannot be denied that Gandhi stood by high moral values and inspired people to follow him the outcome of his actions differed awkwardly from the “noble” intentions. M.K.Gandhi did say that the partition will happen only over his dead body but partition happened and he was still alive. Gandhi’s views on Caliphate movement, his position naively insisting Hindus to recite “Quran” in Hindu temples post partition blood bath, his stand on the payment of Rs 52 Crores to Pakistan after its occupation of Indian territory and demand to provide land for construction of corridor to connect West Pakistan to East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) are reflective of shadiness and perhaps cowardliness. It has to be emphasized that patriotism is only with respect to the Motherland not with reference to any individual howsoever high he may be. As the author has rightly point out an assassin can also be patriot. Self-serving politicians like Rahul Gandhi and Kamal Hassan have muddied the waters. It is ridiculous that the likes of Rahul Bajaj who have been immensely benefited during license raj due to their proximity to Nehru Gandhi dynasty are preaching the gullible common man on what patriotism is. BJP leadership has no business to thrust its views on Sadvi Pragya Singh Thakur. While it may be politically inexpedient to say, the fact of the matter is that Nathuram Godse was and is a patriot. There were many many unsung and unwept heroes in the Independence movement.
How disillusioned is this writer. Someone who assasinated a person who is referred to as the father of nation, should not be called a terrorist. Infact by your logic he should be called a martyr. I support BJP but people like you are trying to push it to the brink of extremism from where there is no point of return.
Who the hell is this Sadhvi Pragya Thakur ?On what merits of public work was she nominated to be MP from Bhopal ?So she spent nine years in jail on terrorism charges that were nowhere close to being proven( is that merit of some kind?) Look at the kind of debates that we are getting in to , a nobody wearing saffron whose only claim to fame is that she spent nine years in jail in a hindu majority country for trying to allegedly kill members of minority community.Gandhi may or may not be great , godse may have had valid reasons for disliking gandhiji , but just imagine if every indian who has valid grouses starts behaving like godse and then some crackpot thinks of that indian as great patriot and then he is elected to the parliament and then there are debates like this .
I am shocked. This one of very bad articles written by Jagganathan. Pragya Singh doesn’t deserve to be in the Parliament. BJP had made a wrong choice of making her the party’s nomination from Bhopal. The party has to now pay for this blunder.
Once in a while, a wrong call is made. Getting her elected to Parliament is one such. Too much political capital will be expended to keep her out of the trouble she will keep getting into. A clean break will be in everyone’s interest. People are free to light candles before a portrait of Nathuram Godse in the privacy of their homes. The public space is sacrosanct. The legacy of Mahatma Gandhi is beyond a rewriting of history.
Great write up, the progeny of two political organization who have been accused of terrorism in 1947-48 (Hyd) and 1984 are jumping on her statement says it all.
Very well written article. If a society wants to be known as liberal one, it must also accommodate and tolerate views which do not gel with the majority thinking. Liberals, or so-called secularists are more intolerant of people who do not agree with them. Right wingers are called intolerant, but not left of centre or left-liberals who call names to people who have different views.
By that logic, society should also have plenty of room for racists, neo-Nazis, slavery-sympathizer etc. “Everyone” should have a voice, apparently. By that logic, right-wing Islamophobes like you should not beat your chests when a maulana issues a fatwa or a fundamentalist threatens society. Everyone should have a voice, right? What a proper idiotic argument. The problem is that fundamentally you believe it’s perfectly fine to have views like Pragya Thakur’s as long as they defend Hinduism. Hinduism above nation for you, right? Hinduism is the greatest. Best thing ever.
Mr Jagannathan has dispassionately analysed all issues relating to assassination of “Mahatma” Gandhi and his assassin Nathuram Godse. It is not quite clear how and when M.K.Gandhi got the title “Mahatma”. But looking back it certainly looks amateurish. While it cannot be denied that Gandhi stood by high moral values and inspired people to follow him the outcome of his actions differed awkwardly from the “noble” intentions. M.K.Gandhi did say that the partition will happen only over his dead body but partition happened and he was still alive. Gandhi’s views on Caliphate movement, his position naively insisting Hindus to recite “Quran” in Hindu temples post partition blood bath, his stand on the payment of Rs 52 Crores to Pakistan after its occupation of Indian territory and demand to provide land for construction of corridor to connect West Pakistan to East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) are reflective of shadiness and perhaps cowardliness. It has to be emphasized that patriotism is only with respect to the Motherland not with reference to any individual howsoever high he may be. As the author has rightly point out an assassin can also be patriot. Self-serving politicians like Rahul Gandhi and Kamal Hassan have muddied the waters. It is ridiculous that the likes of Rahul Bajaj who have been immensely benefited during license raj due to their proximity to Nehru Gandhi dynasty are preaching the gullible common man on what patriotism is. BJP leadership has no business to thrust its views on Sadvi Pragya Singh Thakur. While it may be politically inexpedient to say, the fact of the matter is that Nathuram Godse was and is a patriot. There were many many unsung and unwept heroes in the Independence movement.
How disillusioned is this writer. Someone who assasinated a person who is referred to as the father of nation, should not be called a terrorist. Infact by your logic he should be called a martyr. I support BJP but people like you are trying to push it to the brink of extremism from where there is no point of return.
Who the hell is this Sadhvi Pragya Thakur ?On what merits of public work was she nominated to be MP from Bhopal ?So she spent nine years in jail on terrorism charges that were nowhere close to being proven( is that merit of some kind?) Look at the kind of debates that we are getting in to , a nobody wearing saffron whose only claim to fame is that she spent nine years in jail in a hindu majority country for trying to allegedly kill members of minority community.Gandhi may or may not be great , godse may have had valid reasons for disliking gandhiji , but just imagine if every indian who has valid grouses starts behaving like godse and then some crackpot thinks of that indian as great patriot and then he is elected to the parliament and then there are debates like this .
I am shocked. This one of very bad articles written by Jagganathan. Pragya Singh doesn’t deserve to be in the Parliament. BJP had made a wrong choice of making her the party’s nomination from Bhopal. The party has to now pay for this blunder.
Once in a while, a wrong call is made. Getting her elected to Parliament is one such. Too much political capital will be expended to keep her out of the trouble she will keep getting into. A clean break will be in everyone’s interest. People are free to light candles before a portrait of Nathuram Godse in the privacy of their homes. The public space is sacrosanct. The legacy of Mahatma Gandhi is beyond a rewriting of history.
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Great write up, the progeny of two political organization who have been accused of terrorism in 1947-48 (Hyd) and 1984 are jumping on her statement says it all.
Very well written article. If a society wants to be known as liberal one, it must also accommodate and tolerate views which do not gel with the majority thinking. Liberals, or so-called secularists are more intolerant of people who do not agree with them. Right wingers are called intolerant, but not left of centre or left-liberals who call names to people who have different views.
By that logic, society should also have plenty of room for racists, neo-Nazis, slavery-sympathizer etc. “Everyone” should have a voice, apparently. By that logic, right-wing Islamophobes like you should not beat your chests when a maulana issues a fatwa or a fundamentalist threatens society. Everyone should have a voice, right? What a proper idiotic argument. The problem is that fundamentally you believe it’s perfectly fine to have views like Pragya Thakur’s as long as they defend Hinduism. Hinduism above nation for you, right? Hinduism is the greatest. Best thing ever.