My homage to Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi was a leader, he led people by truth. He practiced what he preached. He was a true democratic leader in the real sense. He got independence for India by following the policy of Ahimsa. He believed that fire cannot be put off by fire. You cannot fight force with force. To extinguish fire, you require water. Ahimsa is the water for the fire called terrorism.

He got independence not only for India but also for a lot of other African countries without war, which the world should now realize as a great victory for Ahimsa.

Today in my own country India, the principles of Mahatma Gandhi have been forgotten. We are just paying lip service to the principles of Mahatma Gandhi by trying to get the Nobel Prize for peace that was never given to Mahatma Gandhi. I think it is better we don't try for this but try and follow his policies. The British had a policy of divide and rule. Today the Indian politicians follow the same policy of divide and rule with the help of the media. When India has been declared as a secular state then no religion, caste should be inquired or mentioned. Everyone should be treated as an Indian not Munnar, Gujjar, Hindu, Muslim, etc.

Swadeshi movement has been forgotten and Government has allowed the opening of malls in the name of development. I think the Government has forgotten that the East India Company from England came to do business and trade with India, and they ruled India for 150 years. The same thing will happen again, this time our rich people will control the common man. The cost of living will go up and up which has started happening already. The cost of land has gone up by about 300-400% during last 2-3 years.

Why has the Government allowed this? Land is not manufactured, so why should the prices go up? This is because of monopoly of builders. All small and medium level builders have stopped doing business and only the rich people have monopolized the building line. This is the main reason for the cost of living to go up. Now the same thing will happen with the opening of malls and sabzi mandis. The govt says that opening up malls and sabzi mandai will increase the employment. But what about the unemployment they will create? All shop keepers will become unemployed. All small sabzi sellers will also become unemployed.

The cost of food items and clothes has also gone up and will go up further.

Mahatma Gandhi must really be crying in his Samadhi at Rajghat and feeling sorry for the common people of India saying to himself what Mr. Churchill said that the leaders of India will fight among themselves and again divide the country into different countries and this has come true.

Indians themselves are doing what the British could not do. This case is not only true for India but is prevailing all over the world. Does any leader think about humanity, freedom, and cost of living? To me the answer is NO. All the leaders should stop speaking about the country and only talk about humanity. The nuclear bomb in not the future bomb, the future bomb will be in the form of environmental changes, ozone layer and global warming. The smoke from factories, cars and airplanes has brought a lot of climatic changes and what we call development today may become a big tragedy tomorrow. Instead of using funds for protection, we should use them for welfare of the people. Climatic bomb is more dangerous than nuclear bomb, let us remember that.

Common man is nobody (no body) but spirits or thoughts. Their thoughts are wandering in the brahmand and somebody caught them and called it democracy. But in India already we had better concept of democracy called 'Ramrajya'. Bringing Ramrajya in the world was what Mahatma Gandhi wanted for the world. Ramrajya has been described by a poet Narsi Mehta in a poem which was sung by Mahatma Gandhi as

"Vaishnav Jana tene kahiye peer parayee jane re." Which means Ramrajya can only be brought if the people, who rule, realize the pains of common people.