Thank you for forwarding this excellent piece, Mukul da.

"The tragic element is that he was ultimately forced, like Lear, to see the
limits of his ambition to remake his world.”

To add, and paint with a rather broad brush, few Indians pay serious thought
to any Gandhian ideal. Almost all of it is just plain lip service.

--Ram


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