I beg to disagree with the writer's indignance at the Saudi King and George Bush giving Gandhiji's memorial a miss. If you ask me this whole country is a memorial to the man who gave us indepnedence with dignity. While he gave us our birth right -swaraj...he taught the world a new way to deal with suppression of human rights! Many a movement and leader has found inspiration from this man...Matin Luther King, Nelson Mandela being cases in point.
The very teaching of Gandhiji was not to demand respect but to command it. By insisting that these dignitaries show respect to the father of our nation we are surely defeating that noble idea.
Why do we need to feel insulted, on the contrary, you must sympathise with people of limited imagination and intellect...In fact I would be insulted if the man who inflicted war on hapless Iraqi's for narrow political gains sets foot in Gandhiji's memorial!
