Intead of Mahatama Gandhi Mani shankar aiyar should remember the name of Rani laxmi bai, tatya tope, Mangal Pandey, bahadur shah jafar & many more who fought for 1857 kranti, Why only gandhiji always
RE:remember
by on May 07, 2007 11:11 AM Permalink
Pradeep rao Mahatma Gandhi towers over all other figures who fought for our freedom. The Hindu Right and Muslim league were collaborators with the British - the revolutionaries were insignificant - the credit for making the cry for freedom a mass movement that spanned India goes wholly and solely to Bapu. Today, anyone with a BA thinks he can abuse the Mahatma. I only think that today's Congress Party stinks. But I touch the feet of bapu.
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by varun kumar on May 07, 2007 09:17 AM Permalink
Everyone knows Gandhi in the international community. Because Gandhi was killed by a religious fanatic, it becomes even more important to project Gandhi because it shows to the world that we reject all kinds of fanatics and facists.
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by Minu Mukherjee on May 07, 2007 09:40 AM Permalink
Gandhi was killed by Godse not for religious reasons, but for seclar casue. Everybody was upset that Gandhi was asking Govt of India to pay some huge money to Govt of Pakistan which didn't make any sense in those tumultous days of partition.
Godse was LESS religious than Gandhi.
Nehru/Patel didn;t pay the promised sum top Pakistan by the way.
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by bajrangi on May 07, 2007 09:18 AM Permalink
He he he he he....
Mani know only gandhi, nehru, indira, and gandhi-nehru members as freedom fighters. Even if these persons were great fighters, What role they had in 1857 war. They were not even born that time. This is new hight of chamchagiri of congress.
He is the same person who abused Mr Veer Savarakar at Andamans during one program 1 year back and did not even bothered to apologise later.
Intead of him inaugrating this great historical event, It should have been some one like INA Captain Laxmi Sehgal or likes.
