Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi distills the vital lessons from the past, the complicated legacy of independence and partition, and the enduring relevance of nonviolent resistance. As an astute student and eyewitness of history, professor Gandhi has a skill for distilling the vital lessons of the past. As India was approaching independence, [they] felt that with independence comes democracy, and with that comes one person one vote. And this was a feeling that led to the demand by some people for the Muslim majority parts of India to be made into a separate country. But simultaneously, a great number of ordinary people, whether they were Hindus, Muslims, or Sikhs, protected fellow human beings.

Source: The North Africa Journal August 15, 2017 12:22 UTC