On Gandhi

Last week I read an article on Gandhi. Our “great Mahatma”. About his illicit doings apart from what we know about him. Don’t get me wrong. I m not the average sarcastic Indian who sits here in the 21st century judging what could have been done almost a century ago. In fact, I detest this certain type of person. Why? Coz they actually have the audacity to say “What could have been better?” I mean, is this a software project or even a cricket match that was lost? Hold on. Is it so that, we will know what not to do when we fight for our freedom again? I hope not!
And they say “Ummm Gandhi was good in what he did BUT he could have done it better. I’m sure if he was not there we could have got our freedom 50 years earlier”. And then what? I do feel like saying “Excuse me sir, but did you wanna be trampled by the English? Did you actually?”
In fact, I would say, its good we were ruled by the British and its good that we got the independence the way we did. Whatever the pimple-faced patriotic Indian says, I don’t think we were ready at all to be independent anytime earlier. But like my friend says, “This is my opinion and you need not agree with it ”