mar 28th, 2011 CE
our good friend radha rajan in her study, "eclipse of the hindu nation", had come upon a lot of these questionable things the mahatma did. of course, since she is an indian, her analysis got no visibility whatsoever. not only indian, but a right-wing indian. but when a white guy says similar things, why, they must be true!
of course there is nothing wrong with iconoclasm. but in india there are only two 'untouchable' sacred cows: gandhi and jawaharlal. they may not be analyzed, or deconstructed. why? because they are so useful in propagating the dynasty? and the well-honed mythology of how independence was personally bestowed on india by them.
i have for long said that gandhi was a marketing genius, but sadly deluded in other ways. he thought he was tolstoy (a vegetarian xtist martyr type), for one thing. and then, he also thought that jawahar had a brain. sadly mistaken on both counts.
it may well have been a good thing for him that godse offed him. i don't know, but can you imagine an old busybody like him trying to direct jawahar, who thought he (jawahar, that is, not gandhi) was god's gift to mankind, not to mention the emperor ashoka reincarnated, bringing 'whirled peas' through his wonderful panchaseela?
interesting thought. just like it is quite possible that it was zardari who was behind the offing of benazir (and perhaps people-whom-we-cannot-mention were behind the offing of indira and rajiv nehru), is it possible that jawahar got gandhi offed? hmmm.... maybe jawahar did have a brain, after all?
why didn't anybody off jawahar? why did he die of natural causes (an unmentionable disease, according to some)? maybe he was worth more to white guys alive than dead. gandhi had perhaps outlived his usefulness to the whites by 1947, but jawahar, oh he did so much to help whites contain and destroy india in the 17 years of his quasi-benevolent dictatorship!
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