Thinking of and 'like' Gandhi

Gandhi lives on primarily because of the sheer force of his ideas, not because we have put them into practice

This month marks the beginning of the year-long celebrations of the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. It’s a time for reflection and I would like to take you through a Gandhi Test.

The world has surely gone downhill in terms of his most cherished ideal: Non-violence. Today, we see aggression in everything — from our words to our social behaviour and our relationship with nature. Our intolerance has hit rock bottom. We score a zero-minus on this.

Then comes the issue of development. Gandhi was not just about throwing out the British. He was about what would come next. He thought