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The human soul, struggling against the onslaught of the satanic forces of globalization in the 21st century is restlessly looking for a philosophy to inspire and praxis for action, in its quest for God. In this hour of despair, equipped with a hindsight wisdom, we need to re-examine the emergence of the leviathan called the nation-state, as it was evolved and established during the 300-500 years of west. Mahatma Gandhi – had proposed an alternative philosophy, rather programme, of ‘non-violence’ as the basis of organising life and society. His ideas were rejected declaring such faith in non-violence as bordering on lunacy. Almost all ‘Gandhi’s contemporaries’ no matter what political thought they represented, were not only naïve about the real nature of capitalism-imperialism, but they were also enticed by it. Their main complaint against the British was that they were too slow in pushing scientism and industrialism in India. The above satanic illusion laid the ground for the partition of India and our current trap in the militarism and globalization with continued impoverishment.
Today, once again, we have the opportunity to consider the Gandhian alternative based on the dialectical dynamics of natural unities as opposed to the dialectics of antagonisms. Despite the contemporary fashion in some circles to minimize his gigantic contribution to the Indian independence and the anti-colonial struggles of the 20th century and at the same time trivialize his thoughts as mere idiosyncrasies, he remains perhaps our sole inspiration today to re-explore and reassert our humanity and soul. It is perhaps an enigma why Gandhi has emerged as larger than life figure of the twentieth century and as we enter into the twenty first century, the interest in his name and ideas continues to enlarge and grow. One possible reason could be that he gave a pious hope of fighting the most violent monster of capitalistic imperialism by its antithesis –truth and non violence.
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