The Story of India and Mahatma Gandhi

I have been known as crank,faddist,madman.Evidently,the reputation is well deserved.For wherever i go.I draw to myself,cranks,faddists and madmen".

" The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration's.Seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall always see Truth in fragments and form different angles of vision". MAHATMA GANDHI

when i was in seventh standard and we were studying drawing i remember i had drawn Gandhi before 2nd Oct and the trick was except his eyes which i had traced it with tracing paper i had sketched everything else in the picture. I remember that the picture was displayed in the school.

The more and more i learnt about him i hated his ideas and thoughts and more i hated them more i developed interest in his thoughts and life.It was the film GANDHI by Richard Attenbourough when i saw the hate was converted into love for the the old man. I remember my grandmother used to tell me that during her school days once Lokmanya Tilak had come to her school and she had garlanded him on the occasion.However Gandhi came in our home through books and pictures.

The college where i studied has 125 years old library where i read even more books on Krishnamurthi and Gandhi Bertarnd Rusell, P G Wodehouse. Again he influenced me.

In those days not being able to buy first hand books i used to go to Chand baba a very famous old book stall owner who gave me the series of 12 books on gandhi with photographs and that was the final transformation.I keep on understanding him and last year when MUNNABHAI was released it was again gandhi who was reinterpreted.

I like him on currency notes, in books, in films and in pictures.Just yesterday i got a boook on him in marathi which describes the various personalities in his life and their versions and descriptions of him.A wealth of Gandhian thoughts is sought.

How history repeats i don't know but when i saw Michael wood on discovery presenting a series on The story of India again i recollected Gandhi.Wood completes the global cycle.Like Bhagini Nivedita did for Swami Vivekananda and so on.

and today only i received the copy of the book story of india.

isn't that surprising?.Wood gandhi and tibetain music is the new global mutual tolerence formula for me. what about you?