Gandhian ways & means

The media may have described Anna Hazare’s campaign against corruption as the second coming of Gandhi but the Great Soul’s great grandson Tushar Gandhi was far more ambivalent about the similarity. Hazare had “his own method of doing” things, he said at a Mahatma Gandhi memorial lecture in Hyderabad last week but added that he wasn’t surprised by the comparison. “This is the age that considers even Lage Raho Munna Bhai the encyclopaedia of Gandhi,” he said. He was quick to say he didn’t mean to disregard what Hazare was doing, “but if there is a debate about doing things the ideal Gandhian way, there is an argument.”