There was no Ramayana without Rama, there was no Indian freedom movement without Mahatma. He did great works and he did mistakes too. Forty crore Indians as was never before united and followed his footsteps. The greatness in a ‘common man’ Gandhi united the then sub-continent which was dived on caste, religion, region, so on and so-forth as one nation with a powerful weapon non-violence. The world has been striving for an egalitarian society since ages, many social and political ideologies had been developed in that process. He drenched their principles in the nectar of Indian philosophical thought, re-defined and gave back. Since ages India as like many other nations has been contributing to the world in many ways and he added one more flower to that garland.

Prior to 1918, there were many great leaders, intellectuals, progressive thinkers, political giants than Gandhiji in Indian national movement and also among his contemporaries. They woke up the nation from a deep asleep but could not make it act. Reason: All are Himalayan mountains, everyone has his own unique power but that power only showed the common man his inabilities infront of it, it could not give its energy to him to build up strength and self-confidence.

But, this gentleman is not a Himalayan mountain, he is a vast farmyard. He is not Aakash ganga, he is a fresh water lake. The nectar of it is available to everyone. He made the common man to think “I too have this power” and common man started thinking — when a common man like him became a leader of 40 crores he felt proud, he continued “Why cannot I ?”. That was all, the necessary task was done. Each and every one became confident of oneself. The forty crore insects living in forty crore small holes became forty crore humans. When forty crore people united together are marching forward as a giant tidal wave of an ocean who can stand infront of it and the nation had seen a new dawn.

The fanatic forces responsible for his sudden demise have been trying to kill the spirit of him and divide us on the basis on sectarianism. It had taken the momentum with the emergence of so called self-claimed Nationalists into the power but the insects cannot live in front of the light. His spirit present deep inside our hearts keeps us united and it’s our duty to let it glow intensely for ages.

( There are many incidents on which he has been criticized. No intentions to clear the air here. One can clear the dust in the eyes of another but who can clear it if it is in the mind ? He alone. If he really wants to get the clarification, he cannot get sleep till it is done, but if his intentions are simply to criticize he cannot get sleep if it is cleared. He wants to live in illusions and falsehood. He is comfortable there. When the moment things are cleared he will be no longer at peace. Whatever it is, it is up to one’s own conscience.)