Magic Wand

Hello, I have the magic wand! (Part I)

This is Part I of a series of articles on the present state of our economy and related topics. 

The ruling elite often say they don’t have the magic wand to solve this problem or that, be it inflation, farmers’ suicide or insurgency. I guess I have the magic wand.

Controlling Inflation

Let us take the case of inflation first. You have say Rs 1000/- in your pocket. You don’t need it now. You would like to keep it in Fixed Deposit so that you may get about Rs 1080/- or more after one year. If you have some object say gold or even a piece of land worth say Rs 1000/-, you would like it to be valued more than Rs 1000/- or for that matter more than Rs 1080/- after one year. Your money, gold or land does not undergo any value addition to deserve being valued higher after a time period. Even after a thousand years a sovereign of gold remains that much only and not a milligram more, an acre of land does not grow by a square foot or for that matter a hundred rupee note does not grow by a square millimeter. But you want it valued more. This is the very cause for inflation. Inflation is inherent in the economic system where money attracts interest. The inflation rate is practically the same as the weighted average of interest rate [lending] of banks, lenders, multans etc. put together. Whenever inflation appears to go out of control, the reserve bank barges in with an increase in lending rate, claiming tighter money supply will result in reduction in inflation, only to find that the inflation rate actually goes up further. My economic sense tells me to cut the lending rate if you want to cut the inflation rate. In fact abolish interest on deposits. Let the money be only kept safe by the banks free of cost. Let the bank in turn lend money to industries etc at a very nominal cost to cover the expenses in conducting the business. Nationalised banks do not have to make profit either. Inflation rate will crash to close to zero. This is no new theory. Karl Marx realized it more than a century back. History says the prices in China were stable for nearly 50 years during the communist rule – before they capitulated to capitalism in the name of introducing reforms. I am not advocating Communism or Marxism. I am just speaking plain logic.

In fact the ideal solution would be to have the artificial currencies abolished and declare gold as the standard currency. Thus we will deal in grams, milligrams and kilo grams of gold. There will be ‘zero inflation’ then. For the value of gold, paper currencies can be issued suitably named for easy handling. But the price of gold in this scheme will remain constant. A gm of gold will cost only a gm of gold ever. There will be no trading in gold. This also is no new idea. The idea of currency started like this only centuries back. Land price will increase if there is development in the area, but the increase will be reasonable as the artificial demand for land due to steep appreciation will disappear due to abolition of interest. The idea of investing in land will vanish. Land will be traded only to meet necessity.   

The government wants to fill the coffers with dollars. The purchasing power parity – PPP – value of a dollar is only about Rs 10/-. But you get about Rs 60/- currently, when you exchange your dollar in a bank. Say you have a product worth Rs 1000/. You should be able to sell it at $ 100 going by the PPP value in the international market. But you are happy to sell for even $ 50 to be competitive, as you can get about Rs 3000/- or more from reserve bank. You under sell your product. The country gets much needed [?] dollars and you make a wind fall. You [the dollar earning firms] in turn pay your employees handsomely, read much more than they deserve in comparison with people of other fields. It looks like everybody is happy. But they (dollar earners) spend lavishly and this leads to inflation. I call IT as ‘Inflationary technologies’. Not just that. When you go to international market to buy something with your dollar you get only Rs 10/- worth products [less shipping and handling costs] per dollar. The dollar is a double edged weapon. It is left to anybodies imagination how many trillions of rupees have been lost this way in the past 21 years since the introduction of the so called economic reforms, the LPG [liberalization, privatization and globalization] regime. I call it ‘deforms’ or ‘uneconomic reforms’. You have to just multiply the cumulative inflow of dollars in the 21 years period by Rs 50/- per dollar to get a feel. 2G scam will look trivial in comparison to this scam of fixing poor exchange rate for Rs Vs USD. Off course the PM and FM will argue they don’t fix the exchange rate. But their policies have led to this situation. They have created the environment of excessive dollar dependency forcing high demand for dollars [imports] with the supply [exports] not matching leading to the excessive exchange rate. Where does the difference between the real value of dollar and the exchange value [say Rs 60 – 10 = Rs 50] come from? You, me and the beggar on the street, or to be more charitable to the economists, it all comes from the non dollar earning public. The masses are in effect subsidizing the dollar earners to the extent of 500 percent!! A fat dollar reserve is being touted as an indicator of the strength of our economy. I am sorry, it actually indicates the weakness, to what extent we have impoverished ourselves or sold ourselves out. Off course dollar is needed to import essentials like crude. But we can definitely pull the fuse out of the inflating dollar by learning to live on less petrol and other import based items which was the case until LPG was introduced in 1991. We were encouraged to save till then. We are wooed to spend now putting undue pressure on the supply leading to inflation. We were advised to talk less and work more. We are wooed to keep on talking now so that the Rajahs – cell phone companies – may build castles.  

Whenever the value of dollar vis a vis rupee decreases [meaning rupee appreciates], instead of celebrating, the PM and FM lament and do everything possible to hold the dollar up [not rupee up]. Same is the case with the sensex. Raising sensex means money is flowing from the aam adhmi to the rich share holders. But when the sensex drops the PM and FM lament and do everything to push the sensex up instead of safeguarding the interest of the common man when the sensex shoots up. This proves that this government does not represent ‘us’ but only represents ‘US’.  

The story goes on (This is not the end).

K.Raja Rajan

Who Am I

‘Who Am I?’                                                                                                                   Written in 2013

No, I am not going to dwell on Ramana Maharishi’s contemplations ‘Who Am I’. This is a puzzle. Find out ‘Who am I’.

And the Clues are:

People (some) consider me the embodiment of virtues, the most honest being, in a gang of over a billion dishonest members. Have they forgotten the old saying ‘tell me who your friends are, I will tell you who you are?’ Some of my friends – not very close – have spent years in jail, even at the enquiry stage, for lootings under my stewardship, some – very close – are waiting to be interned and many more waiting to be unmasked. May be soon for convenience and minimizing the man millage movement, my group meetings may be held at the fortified premises at Thihar. The value of the loots – planned and executed ably under my directions – already in public domain, is fast reaching values comparable to budget and plan allocations, who knows may be from the next budget we will have a column for this too and the next five year plans will specify the figures for this for the period, for which I expect to continue to be in business.

Off course, I am an acclaimed financial wizard and no doubt the figures of my achievements are historic. The rate of inflation, scams, suicide by formers, number of my associates visiting jails across the country off and on, some of them have spent more time in jail than their constituency, number of days of business lost due to the elements who cannot appreciate my effort to boost these figures further are just some of the most visible. Even the conversion rate of US dollars and the sensex have never seen the kind of surge as during my command. The explosive increase in dollar value – meaning the lowering of rupee value – is a great achievement as also the shooting up of sensex – meaning money flows from the tiny pockets of the hungry aam adhmi in to the huge coffers of the rich and mighty. The number of millionaires has zoomed during my tenure, but the only minor hitch is that the million of today is only a tiny fraction of the million of yester years.

I officially head a very large democratic gathering though no one has elected me ever to that post. People say ‘you represent us’ but I actually represent US. I was actually deputed by the boss of the federation of corporate houses of the west – some ignoramus call him the ‘President’ – to look after their interest in a huge as yet un explored market. The market for their – west’s – cosmetics, nuclear equipments, seeds, cars, cell-phones et all had reached saturation levels and they wanted to invade a 3 times larger market. They had already appointed one of my close friends as the boss after he successfully eliminated the chain of earlier bosses who preferred the local and Asian – Eurasian to be more accurate – products. With him, I was to make policy changes that would ensure the explosion of the market for their wares for which they will do the necessary publicities like declaring our women the most beautiful et all. To obviate detection they will credit my remuneration in my accounts spread over the tax havens. I was not satisfied with the offer. But they assured me, it is in my hands to enhance the value by increasing the exchange rate of dollars, which I have done successfully and everybody – I mean all the dollar earners, a small fraction of the whole population though, the rest mean nothing to me – are happy about it.  As my cut from this contract is so huge, I decided not to take any cut in local dealings and left it to my associates to loot, making it all the more difficult to detect my color. Thus I am painted all white. I am not talking about my beard.

Some fools tell me that cosmetics are a drain on the resources of many and harmful to the skin. They don’t appreciate that I am trying to make this land a beautiful paradise. They say nuclear power is not green as is being portrayed but blood red, N power plants are veritable time bombs that too nuclear one, a disaster waiting to happen with potential to wipe out a large section of the population and bio diversity. They don’t seem to realize the great potential of N plants to reduce the population of this over populated land mass. GM seeds again are being opposed. How else to ensure that the poor remain so? The pesticides used have not been very effective on the pest called aam adhmi. The GM seeds inc and N equipment inc have promised us their seeds and equipments will ensure reducing the population by half within 25 years. What else will do it so quickly? Oh are they missing a point. An increase in market for their seeds and equipments will mean a reduction in population which will mean a reduction in the market for their cosmetics and throw a spanner in to our works. I will speak to my master this night. ‘Ass! (Aswin) remind me at 11.59 O clock’.

FDI in retail, they say will wipe out our traders. After all they are an inefficient lot. Even Mahatma Gandhi said ‘every post should be filled by the most meritorious’ and the western retail giants are more deserving than the local blocs. Money will flow westward – and inflation and dollar value will go northward. Will it not be great to see our wealth flowing to west? We can after all claim we are feeding the west.  

The LPG regime I introduced earlier fuelled the economy – some disgruntled elements say it burnt the local economy to ashes – and look now we are helping averting the collapse of the western economy. Thus my efforts have far reaching consequences and we can be proud of supporting the largest economy in the world. The local industries have died as they are not competitive. The uneconomic activity called agriculture is being methodically wiped out to ensure that more economically viable western factory made food available in plenty for the survivors. There may be some collateral damages though. After all only three hundred and fifty thousand farmers have committed suicide – a small fraction of the nearly 90 crore rural population. Look at the positive side of it. We have reduced the population that much. Hail agriculture as being one single sector achieving such a feet.

Some say I have betrayed the aam adhmi. But the Am adhmi like me like no one else. That only counts.

I deserve a place in ‘Guiness’ for making 1.2 billion people ‘Ginnies’ (Ginny pigs)

Aye, you are still not able to guess who I am? Thank you for your support. I count upon your support for another term.

To avoid being identified by hand writing, I am getting this noted by Raja Rajan who is not a friend of mine for sure.

A dream confession jotted by K. Raja Rajan.

(A technologist by qualification, a farmer by option and a Gandhian by conviction)

GM crops

Won just the battle and not the war yet

Bt brinjal has been put in cold storage for now. The danger has not passed as yet but is only deferred. The democratic pressure from the farmers and environmentalists has proved to be stronger than the monetary pressure from the ‘Moath ka Saudagars’ – ‘Merchants of death – American Bt companies’, but we can not say ‘sense has prevailed’, as it is only a temporary reprieve. Farmers have just won round one.

I have a basic question. ‘Who told the Government that there is any shortage of brinjal? And where is the need to introduce a higher yielding [effectively] variety of brinjal? Brinjal is ‘one of the’ if not ‘the’ cheapest vegetable in the market and again ‘one of the’ if not ‘the’ most abundantly available item in the market [may be next only to cell phones] in a country of shortages. Supply and demand theory wants us to believe that prices fall when supply is high and demand is low. The farmers get a very poor price for brinjal. Increasing yield [even by improving pest resistance] will only lower the prices further though there can be no two opinions about improving pest resistance. If the Government could care, they should help the farmers to get better price for brinjal, as also all the other farm produce instead of driving them to suicide by forcing them to sell for a minimum support price which is much lower than the average cost of production. They have to fix a fair remunerative price for all agro products.

But looking at it politically, many amongst us have been dreaming of India becoming a superpower. The testing of ‘Nuclear weapon’ did not make us a superpower. The wiping out of negative BOP [Balance of payment] and building a huge ‘Forex’ reserve [read Dollars], did not make us a superpower. Striking the nuclear deal with US did not make us a superpower either. In fact these things only made us a virtual slave to US. The rejection of pressure from the US to commercialise Bt brinjal has made us stand tall and we can now claim to be a superpower capable of standing up to them. Hats off to the farmers and environmentalists! It may be short live like our No 1 status in test cricket. How one wonders sense had prevailed during the ‘nuclear deal drama’ in 2008 too, when the whole country except the two hundred and odd [‘Rs 25 crore’] MPs, were against it but the American nuclear lobby prevailed instead of sense, then.

Introduction of Bt cotton resulted in the death of more than 300,000 farmers in India in recent times. It is actually Genocide going by the numbers. The case of cotton was at least indirect. The farmers lured in to cultivating Bt cotton dreaming of high yield, lost heavily due to high cost and poor yield and consequently they committed suicide by consuming pesticide. Introduction of GM vegetables will expose the entire population – not just the farmers – to the dangerous consequences of GM crops directly. This will be much worse than the havoc caused by pesticides through food/ water [mainly bottled mineral water] and atmospheric pollution. The consequences will be unimaginable – death toll will be not in thousands or lacs but a billion plus. This will be manifolds worse than the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by US. GM crops will also pollute the atmosphere and water like pesticides, apart from directly poisoning the food, causing deceases hitherto unknown. This is also the creation of the ‘Moath ka Soudagars’ – merchants of death – Americans, as the weapons of mass destruction – nuclear, biological, chemical weapons as well as the Cola drinks and cell phones [I call colas liquid bomb and cell phones electronic bomb] – which are already at work trying to render not only humanity but all forms of life extinct on this beautiful planet. Acidic Colas are dissolving the teeth and bones, the cell phones are virtual micro wave ovens baking not only the cells of human beings, but also animals and plants, rendering them prone to cancers, mutations and mutilations. They are affecting not only the users, but the non users as well like passive smoking. GM crop is nothing short of a biological or a genetic weapon – a bio or a geno bomb.

It is time to replace ‘Science’ with ‘Con Science’ [conscience].

Even if the farming community resists cultivating the branded GM crops, the hawks will push it through the unbranded seeds market. Hence, the farmers should buy seeds from their fellow farmers – certified personally and not by any corporate/ government agencies – to ensure that the seed is not a GM/ Bt one. The consumers on their part should avoid buying the GM products even if it is cheaper, looks more attractive and has longer shelf life. Our own history has shown that when the consumer decides to say ‘No’ even the mighty empires have to bow out and Manmohan, Monsanto and the other MNs [multi nationals] are not any bigger than the then ‘British Empire’. ‘MN’ sounds like Yaman – God of death – in Tamil. True – the above MNs do ring the death knell.

In India, rural population is 70 percent and they largely depend on agriculture. They constitute the majority of the voters. Any attempt to manipulate the rural economy, culture etc. not for their welfare but to placate the appetite of their foreign masters, will boomerang on the politicians one day. The so called economic reforms were introduced by the duo of Narasimha Rao and Manmohan singh much against the verdict of 1991 elections, which was won on the promise of continuing the policies of Jawaharlal and to some extent Indira. It was a total betrayal. The reforms were not intended for the good of the masses but only the MNCs and foreign powers – US to be specific. The electorate promptly showed Congress the doors at the earliest opportunity in 1996 elections and the 100 year old party was thrown in to oblivion. The genocide by 300,000 farmers is the direct result of the reforms – surrender to US. Earlier Indira tried to gag democracy in 1975 and the electorate threw her out in 1977 elections. Democracy is still vibrant though limping in India. The rulers have to do what is good for the people whom they claim to represent and not their maters across the globe.

‘Defiling the Mahatma and Deifying his Assassin’

‘Defiling the Mahatma and Deifying his Assassin’

Albert Einstein said “Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one ever walked in flesh and blood on earth”. Some others predicted, a hundred years hence people will build temples everywhere for him and pray. Whom were they talking about? The one and only Gandhi the Mahatma! And what did he actually do to deserve these words?

I for one would pick his warning “Nature has enough for everybody’s need but, not enough for anybody’s greed” as his greatest realization and contribution to the war torn world. Analyze any issue and it will boil down to the havoc caused by greed and/or welfare achieved by the non greedy/selfless. He said these words a good hundred years before phrases like environmental degradation, global warming were even coined and entered the vocabulary of common people, nearly half a century before the worst ever crime was unleashed on the humanity – the dropping of ‘Atom Bombs’ on the innocents citizens after the war had already ended. It does not refer to environmental issues alone. It is all encompassing, the very way of life. Replacing the word Nature by ‘God’, it represents the whole gamut of religion. It is the essence of Vedas and Bhagawath Geetha. In Tamil we say ‘Manh aasai, Pon aasai, Penh aasai’ are the reasons for all sufferings of mankind.

Wars are results of greed. War cannot end war. The analogy of a thorn to remove another does not apply here. End of one war is just the seed for the next and more deadly war. Truth is need, untruth is greed. Freedom is the need of all but slavery is due to the greed of some. Terrorism cropped as a reaction to the greed of some – mainly US – to control the world. Terrorists have killed much fewer [few thousands] than the US military [few millions]. No amount of arming can put an end to terrorism. Only stopping harming can do that. Socialism is the need of all. Capitalism [call it market economy if you don’t like the old world word] is the result of greed. Idea of ‘superpower’ emanates out of greed of some to control others. Idea of ‘subeeksha’ emanates out of concern for all. ‘Sarvodhaya’ targets to achieve ‘subeeksha. Vegetarianism is the need, while Meat eating is greed.    

When someone asked me what is ‘Gandhiam’ [Gandhism or whatever] I said ‘I can write volumes about it, or an article running to pages or just tell in a single word ‘Naermai’ – honesty or forthrightness. Practice of ‘Naermai’ in thought, word and deed is Gandhiam, nothing more and nothing less’.  

‘He practiced what he preached’ is the common refrain. In fact not just practiced in personal life, he proved it is possible to practice truth and nonviolence in political/public life too. In fact this makes him stand out even among the greats ‘Buddha, Jesus and Gandhi’. Truth applied to humanity’s struggle against social evils, injustice and atrocities, took the shape of ‘Sathyagraha’ – nonviolent struggle using only truth as the weapon, not to coerce the enemy but to convince the opponent by self suffering.  

When India joined the devils band wagon by testing the nuclear device, I noted ‘The history of the world is clearly on cross roads now. We have to choose between violent annihilation of biological matter on this planet and peaceful perpetuation of life. Violence has been the way of politics all these ages, until Mahatma Gandhi gave us the tool of Nonviolence. The future story of the world can be written only with Nonviolence, as otherwise the humanity will not exist to record it. We have to reverse this madness of misuse of science and replace it with con-science (conscience)’. 

Not just India, the whole world has accepted him as the greatest advocate of peaceful coexistence. He is much above Bharath Rathnas and Nobels. He was much above the religions of the world.  The post ‘Hiroshima – Nagazaki world’ has not yet been shattered in to tiny fragments mainly because of the efforts by his followers – Rajaji, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajaji’s son Narasimhan, Vijalakshmi Pandit and others at the UN and other forums, in spite of holding more than 20000 bombs, each many folds more powerful than the ‘Little Boys’.

He gave a voice to the down trodden – the dalits – calling them Harijans. The word untouchability has vanished from our memory and vocabulary now thanks only to him. It was nothing short of a miracle that the scourge of untouchabilty, a few thousand years old practice in India, was eradicated by him practically single handedly, not by any power of administration but by Atma Sakthi – fasting and driving the message in to the hearts of the caste Hindus. His contribution to the emancipation of women is unparalleled. He re established the pride to the workers, craftsmen and even scavengers. Even saints and religious heads recognized him as the greatest saint – they called him ‘Gandhi Baba’.      

 

Now some disparate elements have gathered the courage to deify the one who assassinated this ‘Avathara Purusha’ whom many regard as the greatest person ever to have lived on earth, if not as an Avathara – incarnation of the lord [as I do]. They want to erect thousands of statues for the murderer. The communal forces among a great people are turning to be another ‘Taliban’. Afghanis Taliban destroyed the statue of another ‘Avatara Purusha’ – the Buddha – and now the Indian and unfortunately Hindu version of Taliban is erecting statues for Nathuram Godse – mind you, it will not stop with that, it will only be followed by destroying the statues, memorials and other memorabilia of the Mahatma.

Even using his name for the ‘Pravasi Bharathiya Divas’ is belittling him. NRI’s haven’t gone out to bring glory or wealth for India. If they do that it is just incidental. It is to satisfy their own self interests that they go out [run away from their mother, father and mother land] that too after being born here, fed and educated here at our [RI’s] cost. The very celebration of ‘Pravasi Bharathiya Divas’ is unfair and an insult to the Indians living back home. Using Gandhi’s name for this is detestable and deplorable to say the least.

Not just erase his memory; they are in fact trying to destroy the very essence of Hinduism/ Sanathana dharma in the name of protecting and fostering it. You can convert a person from one religion to another. But Sanathana dharma is not a religion. It is a way of life. Everyone living by a set of social rules – dos and don’ts – is a member of ‘Sanathana Dharma’. You cannot convert a Sanathana dharmi in to a Sanathana dharmi. The others who don’t live by rules including these elements are not even human to say the least. You have to only try to convert – humanize – them.  

Some people are trying to justify Godse based on incorrect understanding of the history. They say Gandhi betrayed us by agreeing to partition India. What a travesty of truth. First of all there was nothing like India before 15^th Aug 1947. It was a subcontinent of hundreds of kingdoms and a large patch of the British Empire. The idea of ‘India’ as a nation came in to being thanks only to the stalwarts of freedom struggle – Gokhale, Thilak, Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, Bose, Azad and others. They worked for coalescing the bits and pieces in to a nation. Gandhi declared ‘You can partition India only over my dead body. You have Hindus and Muslim living in every village. How can you partition each and every village?’ The idea of partition was the poison sown by the British in the minds of some greedy Muslim leaders. Even today almost every Muslim living in India is proud of being an Indian and would only like to remain here and not defect to Pakistan. Only when Nehru, Patel and others argued that ‘the situation is going out of control – due to the direct action launched by Jinnah where scores of Hindus and as a reaction Muslims were getting slaughtered’ and ‘if we miss this opportunity, we may never get independence in the near future, let us at least retain the portion other than Pakistan as prescribed by Jinnah’, did he submit to the reality of the situation very reluctantly though. May be Godseyers would have been happy if Gandhi had laid down his life then as he declared earlier. They are repenting now as the blame for Gandhi’s death has fallen on Godse and RSS. We should also not discount the fact that the very formation and activities of RSS trying to make the nation a ‘Hindu Rashtra’ gave a major impetus to the Islamic faction in Congress to form the ‘Muslim league’ and demand ‘Pakistan’ and the British used the opportunity to drive a wedge.  

Godseyers feel he delivered a judgment on Gandhi. Even God [call him by any name] would not dare delivering such a judgment on such a person. Even the learned British Judge stood up in reverence when Gandhi was brought in as an accused in a case. Going by the rules in vogue, he pronounced a six year internment for Gandhi and added ‘if His Majesty [the King] decides to reduce the sentence, no one will be happier than I’. 

Tales of his detractors turning followers after direct encounters with him are aplenty. They are talking of conversions now. The greatest convertor of all times was/is not the evangelists of Christianity or the marauders/invaders of Islam. Mahatma Gandhi converted the out castes – Daliths who were in a huge majority – in to Hindus, by convincing the Hindu stalwarts to allow them in to Temples – using no violence nor promise of benefits, but just recognition as equals. Followers of Hinduism then were only a fraction of what it is today in percentage terms. He has done more to Hinduism than all these hinduthwa forces put together. His transforming the out castes in to religious Hindus is the greatest act of social transformation in the world.    

Godse was just the ante thesis of Gandhi in every respect. I have been saying, ‘Life on earth is just a question of compromise. One’s biography is only the chain of compromises he makes. Given an opportunity everyone would like to keep sleeping. But the reality of having got to eat to live, earn to be able to eat and so on make us compromise and get up, work and earn. If you compromise untruth to uphold truth you become a Gandhi and if you compromise truth for untruth you become a Godse. Every one of us is a mix of these two extremes’. 

Gandhians have been put in to a dilemma now. Should they not protest installation of Godse’s statues? If they remain silent, will it not be construed as approval or as their weakness? Should they not try to bring Godseyers to their senses? Should they not contest Godseyers’ view, which for sure is not good for the humanity? Gandhians should not entertain any malice against them. However, should they not use their Gandhian inclination to guide the misguided? Did not Gandhiji suggest resisting nonviolently social evils, injustice and atrocities? He said Satyagraha does not mean remaining passive. It is only resisting nonviolently using Satya as the tool. Instead of coercing the opponent, a Satyagrahi tries to convince the opponent by his own suffering. Satyagraha is not cowardice. It requires extreme courage to practice it and so on. 

Showing resentment in Gandhian ways – human chain with covered mouth, silent rallies, candle light gatherings and most appropriately with a mass fast on Gandhi’s martyrdom day – when they are planning to assassinate/obliterate his memory too, may be in order.

Not only the avowed Gandhians, humanity as a whole should rise to stop this sinister design to defile the idea of Gandhi and deify his assassin. Will they or won’t they? Only they can decide.

We may think, ‘only those who have sacrificed their pleasures, wealth or life for the sake of others are revered. Even if a thousand statues are erected for Godse, he will never be revered’. But these are days when villains, anti social elements, criminals and even convicts are revered by the ignorant. Have we fallen from Gandhian era in to Godsean era – only time can tell.  

K. Raja Rajan

[Technologist by qualification, Farmer by option and Gandhian by conviction]

President

Gandhian Initiative for Social Transformation 

Email:  rajarajank53@gmail.com  &    letsbelldcat@gmail.com

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