Mahatma Gandhi: A man for our troubled times
Since the day he entered public life, Gandhi has elicited strong views amongst people. This may seem like an unusual response towards a man of peace. But this extreme nature of feelings towards the Mahatma become understandable if we recognise what he fundamentally was-a radical. Here I use the term radical in its primary sense of something or someone of a basic or fundamental sense.
Gandhi has been gone for seven decades, but he speaks to our troubled times, for his ideas belong to the ages. We may apprehend Gandhi's relevance by revisiting what he achieved in his own lifetime. Such an examination will make his contemporary significance apparent.
Gandhi returned to India in 1915, equipped with a quiet, steely resolve and an oversized ambition. For him, it was not enough to extricate India from the grip of the most malign force of the
