ON Gandhi - October Sky Gujarathi gentleman and the intellectual who changed the world

Article i wrote on 1999 published above,when i was going through tough time in one of big messes/misses i did in my life-It's as immature as i write today..

I don’t believe in celebrating birthdays, as I’ve grown mature enough to know what I’ve done and how stupid and intelligent,limited the human life is at least for me. Self rejection is the way I am. Birthday is a mark of completion of orbit as time is always calculated based on the celestial bodies movements, to me birthday is significant to that extent only. Living is a pain for rational man if he doesn't work around ways to live to satisfy himself in a rational way.But again there is nothing wrong in celebrating for great personalities to commemorate and acknowledge and recognize their presence and work. We need to reinstate their thoughts to charge ourselves. Biography is a writers nature, as they write when they propel their personality and they bring lot of information about people as people who did things is essential component of the information background. Every bits of information we read or get through adds to our personalities. Two things marks today for me one is stop celebrating birthday for myself and stop writing biographies. Ideas are to be propelled instead of dwelling upon the personalities.This is an article i missed publishing in October-2 due to some reasons this year which i do now on Jesus Birthday as there is always some beauty in distortion and linking for relevancy by our thinking when done out of the way.

Gandhi is a very old personality which this young generation I belong to won’t be that easy to be attracted. But yet this is for youngsters who have keen eyes on history.Enough has been told by idealists of older generation about Gandhi.They might feel boring on this.Enough has been told and celebrated in media but it is of the notion that he is unreachable great and there is a sort of forcing to accept him as the greatest which i don't intend to. He thought to live like Moses for 125 years. Am not sure about his politics as am not sure how he was except for what I read. But am sure he his really strong personally.Am happy that he was such an solid intellectual  even Britishers accepted to quit.Britishers know sub consciously that they were wrong,just waiting for some one to come and question for calling it quits.Interesting information about him not well know his he got rights for backward community section person to play cricket when he was a advocate. Yes,he did change the world forever on a context.Gandhi makes me believe in India not for what the land is and it is the nucleus of India-the humanity and the unconditional, reasonless and broad minded humanity people of India bring in.To me Gandhi told to believe in rationality ,eventual outcome of rationality is honesty which should not be a superficial bookish word.Honesty is a rational word which invariably means don’t get anything without merit(udanpadu illadha vishayatha seyadhu). Honesty doesn’t guarentee result,nor is dishonesty.So,why cant we die trying being honest. Don’t under estimate the power of questioning,Gandhi just questioned british,as a result we got freedom. The seed Gandhi has left still continued through MLKJ and Obama.Hope it grows forever.Infact many are against him as even it is fashion to oppose Gandhi.Infact I see some fashionable showoffs sharing info on facebook,article,competition about Gandhi in media.Millions are onto him ,hope its not superficial.He didn’t change himself for the world, he changed the world according to him. His experiment on Brahmacharya is controversial yet he has thoroughly digged the human life to the maximum. He was rational and he believed in that strongly,not sure whether he was open ad fair enough when somebody opposes him.He always told the ending of all wisdom is character building and we understand the climax of all character building is humility. He was humble enough to admit he is not Mahatma where i have seen another person say in a famous dailague that "Most Mahatmas dont admit they are one so i shall deny another denial". And Mahatma in the view of Nobel Committe as below:
Geir Lundestad, Secretary of Norwegian Nobel Committee in 2006 said, "The greatest omission in our 106-year history is undoubtedly that Mahatma Gandhi never received the Nobel Peace prize. Gandhi could do without the Nobel Peace prize, whether Nobel committee can do without Gandhi is the question".^[48] In 1948, following Gandhi's death, the Nobel Committee declined to award a prize on the ground that "there was no suitable living candidate" that year. Later, when the Dalai Lama was awarded the Peace Prize in 1989, the chairman of the committee said that this was "in part a tribute to the memory of Mahatma Gandhi."

And most important succession of him is MLKJ who is really a continuation of Gandhi here is famous speech the catchphrase he got from a famous song:

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.