The remains of Mahatma Gandhi, who saw even an indiscreet thought as violence to the soul, were placed on a gun carriage, a bed of flowers perhaps mitigating the strange irony of the spectacle. His assassin, Nathuram Godse, claimed that the Mahatma, with his “childish inanities and obstinacies”, would have got in the way of tomorrow. But even before the Mahatma fell to the ground, was Godse alone in fearing that the venerable old man might not fit too well in a changing world? Also Read | The Mahatma and the movies“I have been known,” the Mahatma once said, “as a crank, faddist, mad man. If he had had his way, the Mahatma would have departed not in 1948 but around 1994.

Source: Mint January 27, 2018 03:22 UTC