tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1674709389503889160.post3956422165846223337..comments2024-03-25T14:25:25.102+00:00Comments on Poetry as Socio-proctology: Hasrat Mohani vs Mahatma Gandhi.windwheelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18099651877551933295noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1674709389503889160.post-15828381733683977622011-12-08T09:19:56.044+00:002011-12-08T09:19:56.044+00:00Gandhiji emphasized soul force and satyagraha beca...Gandhiji emphasized soul force and satyagraha because the knew 'power corrupts.' His only mistake was to put the matter in religious terms by saying Hindus and Muslims should have indissoluble unity. The fact is if he had plainly stated that the politicians of India, regardless of caste or creed, would cut each others' throats and divide the country for their personal gain and grip on power, then the news would have been too unwelcome. The real damage to Hindu Muslim unity was created by greedy politicians who had zero interest in religion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1674709389503889160.post-3900532541563473962011-11-30T07:09:50.384+00:002011-11-30T07:09:50.384+00:00I suppose Nagpur was particularly important to Gan...I suppose Nagpur was particularly important to Gandhi. Jinnah had been booed off the stage for refusing to call him Mahatma. Annie Beasant's silk robes no longer swished in the background. No one was interested in her Tibetan Mahatmas on the astral plane. Henceforth, Khaddar was to go hand in hand with Khilafat. Stuff Gandhi hated- like kids doing well at high ~School or College, lawyers doing well in legal practice, clever people talking to clever people in drawing rooms- was condemned by the Congress. Nagpur gave Gandhi everything he wanted. Things could only go downhill from there. <br />The British couldn't be trusted not to follow up Jallianwallah with Dominion status, just as they had followed up the Concentration camps of the Boer War with just handing South Africa to Smuts and his ilk.<br />The 'coolie' issue and the Pass laws and so on, was supposed to be a stick for the Brits at Westminster to beat the Boers with. But Smuts used the 'yellow peril' argument to chuck out the Chinese so as to show the mine owners who was boss. Ultimately, Gandhi played into his hands and helped humanize him. Come to think of it, Smuts wasn't much cop as a lawyer/negotiator either. At least not initially. Finally Lord Roberts stopped him tying himself into sillier and sillier knots by saying 'don't sweat it mon,' (Bobs was a Jamaican rapper)'the Liberals will be back in next election.'<br />The truth is provincial politics under the Pax Brittanica was as dull as ditch-water. Gandhi spiritualized politics by apotheosizing utter fatuity.<br />Enoch Powell said all political careers end in failure. Gandhi's was conceived in sheer sententious stupidity, was self-manured by failure piled upon abject failure, yet ended trailing clouds of glory.windwheelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18099651877551933295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1674709389503889160.post-27731841879018236322011-11-30T05:33:16.281+00:002011-11-30T05:33:16.281+00:00The Nagpur resolution made an equation between Swa...The Nagpur resolution made an equation between Swaraj and Khilafat. Mahatma Gandhi's point was that to seek to define Swaraj more rigorously would naturally result in the demand for a more rigorous definition of Khilafat. <br />History shows that the Mahatma was right. Every attempt to define the content of Swaraj- e.g. the Nehru report- proved divisive esp. on communal lines.<br />Khilafat itself proved a pipe dream as the Turks had been moving in a Nationalist, as opposed to Islamist, direction and this trend accelerated with the abolition of the Caliphate, the adoption of the la din (Latin) alphabet, the banning of the fez, etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com