70. Are We Incidental? |
‘Is Gandhi incidental in contemporary times?’
is a frequently asked question. ‘Whether Gandhi is incidental or not’ is not
the basic issue; it is rather ‘are we incidental or not?’ In the
contemporary race of becoming a super power, the policy of globalisation and
open trade has pushed our poor countrymen in to a quagmire. Even after
realising this fact, does anyone of us possess the moral courage to oppose
it like Mahatma Gandhi would have done? Can we ask them not to dump their
Pizzas, Burgers and Coca Cola at our doorstep? For a courageous person,
Gandhi is incidental even today; but for a coward, he was incidental neither
then nor today! |