Pranam As an article , like any other can be read to know other views. However, as a California and London based 6 years experienced urudu fans reportings are concerned, she is trying to play the cards favourable to other than India at present. Che Guevera is a hero to one and a national traitor to another. Mahatma Gandhi as leader of the nation who led to freedom, should have taken over the lead as a learnt B G disciple. Artha sastra speaks about the duality; Governance; war, life of a citizen etc. The president and the PM or council of ministers chosen, cannot take decisions as dharmic since SWA DHARMA is different. A freedom fighter leader himself was a villain to England while a hero to India. So Gandhi should have taken over the mantle of leadership to run the govt ; he failed himself and others; he was guided wrongly by so many to divide the nations which remained united tinder the British; Gandhi took back the land into olden divisions. Dharmar is so Good but the chariot running above the earth fell down the moment he lied, however dexterously he could do so. Gandhian attempt to gain the freedom was thwarted by the Hindu muslim divisions demanded byu one vested interest; a leader should have addressed the nation as Indian; denied the Jinnaha; he failed; perhaps he wanted to compensate the ananda Bhavan for India. He was afraid of ruling the nation. In South Africa the Gandhi followers did not do it. Godse was a freedom fighter. He was enraged; he could have stalled his movement; but was taken away by the emotions. BUT WHAT WAS HIS FEAR -DID IT NOT COME TRUE AFTER 50 YEARS OF FREEDOM?. One man is releasing the PM killer and Yasmin is not bothered. Assassinations are tied to the dynasties. Punjabi shot I G but congress supported the Punjabi movement why?. Yasmin missed the Bus?. A nation is the responsibility of the leader who gave the freedom; Gandhi failed; so he has to stepdown from that pedestyal; and the massacreof Hindu Muslim was cause dby Gandhi. The right for which he left Durban, was never fulfilled at Delhi. Godse and Gandhi and similar Booth and Lincoln, so many dual forces of the assassin and the assasinated have a background, Id Rajiv Gandhi killing is justified by the release of the assassin, if the delhi court verdict that there is no conversion and change of rel;igion is fundemental right is correct, then Yasmin has no neutral voice in her article. It is a provocation. KR IRS 4222
On Sat, 4 Jun 2022 at 06:46, Rangarajan T.N.C. <[email protected]> wrote: > By Yasmeen Serhan <https://www.theatlantic.com/author/yasmeen-serhan/> - a > staff writer at *The Atlantic* > > Imagine an America in the not-so-distant future. A right-wing populist > politician has just been reelected president of the United States, stirring > a wave of ethnonationalism not seen since the Trump presidency. Amid the > country’s nativist turn, a cult of personality forms around John Wilkes > Booth, the actor who fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s > Theatre just days after the end of the Civil War. Members of the > president’s party hail Booth as a champion of the Confederate cause. > Statues and memorials are erected in his honor. Although the president > still pays lip service to Lincoln and his legacy, he is politically aligned > much more closely with Booth. > > In the United States, this is a futurological fantasy, but in India a > similar scenario is a reality: The man who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi, the > father of India’s independence movement and the country’s most revered > figure, is celebrated today—by some, at least—as a national hero. Nathuram > Godse, who shot Gandhi to death on January 30, 1948, and was hanged the > following year, has been hailed by Hindu nationalists, including some > members of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party > (BJP), as a martyr > <https://www.outlookindia.com/national/martyr-s-day-hindu-mahasabha-pays-tribute-to-nathuram-godse-news-50334> > and a patriot > <https://www.hindustantimes.com/lok-sabha-elections/lok-sabha-elections-2019-nathuram-godse-a-patriot-says-bjp-s-pragya-thakur/story-uq5EU9OWje7r5tmORd7UsK.html>. > Statues and memorials have been erected > <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/world/asia/india-gandhi-nathuram-godse.html> > in > his honor. Even Godse’s birthday, May 19, is celebrated > <https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2020/may/19/hindu-mahasabha-celebrates-nathuram-godses-birth-anniversary-at-its-office-in-gwalior-2145467.html> > by > groups such as the right-wing political party Hindu Mahasabha as a kind of > holy day. > > This year, that day happened to fall on the press night for *The Father > and the Assassin* <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ-t_wGuJqo>, a new > play at the National Theatre in London about the life of Godse by the > Indian playwright Anupama Chandrasekhar. That a show about the man who > killed Gandhi would open today in an international city speaks to the > transformation of a figure once reviled, if even remembered, into an > ascendant avatar of Hindu nationalism and its hold over present-day India. > > Godse subscribed to the teachings of the Indian politician and political > activist Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, whose *Hindutva* ideology > <https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/05/hindu-nationalism-narendra-modi-india-election/590053/> > articulated > an Indian identity inextricably tied to the Hindu faith. Godse was also a > member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a Hindu-nationalist paramilitary > organization founded in 1925 that seeks the creation of a Hindu *rashtra*, > or “nation.” This idea of India posed a direct challenge to the secular > and inclusive vision > <https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/05/narendra-modi-india-religion-hindu-nationalism/630169/> > of > the country championed by Gandhi and India’s other founding fathers. Godse > believed that Gandhi had betrayed Hindus by acquiescing to the partition of > India (which led to the creation of Muslim-majority Pakistan) and acceding > to Muslim demands. > > “Once you get to know my story,” says Shubham Saraf in the role of Godse > at the National Theatre, “then you’ll understand me.” In a larger > perspective, to understand Godse’s reputation today is to get to know India > itself, and see how it has changed. > > The lionization of Godse in India today would have been unthinkable just a > few decades ago. In the aftermath of Gandhi’s assassination, Godse and his > co-conspirators were condemned as traitors. The organizations with which > Godse was affiliated were vilified and, in the case of the RSS, even > temporarily banned. “The cause for which he stood suddenly became > discredited,” Kapil Komireddi, the author of *Malevolent Republic: A > Short History of the New India*, told me. By killing the nation’s *Bapu*, > or “father,” “Godse was perceived as an evil and a monster,” he said. > > > - > > > - [image: An empty office] > > > - > > This toxicity would stick into the 1980s, when the RSS’s political wing, > the now-ruling BJP, was formed. Until that point, “no respectable Indian > wanted to touch the RSS,” Audrey Truschke, a historian of South Asia at > Rutgers University, told me. But as the BJP became more popular, > Hindu-nationalist policies slowly began creeping back into currency, > culminating in the election of Modi in 2014. While Modi continues to pay > tribute > <https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/martyrs-day-mahatma-gandhi-january-30-2022/article38348896.ece> > to > Gandhi, whose legacy still holds enormous soft power in India and around > the world, Modi’s Hindu-nationalist policies > <https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/05/hindu-nationalism-narendra-modi-india-election/590053/> > and > worldview are more in tune with Godse’s. > > Read: The Hinduization of India is nearly complete > <https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/05/narendra-modi-india-religion-hindu-nationalism/630169/> > > “You will always remain a footnote,” one of the prison guards goads Godse > in the play, as he awaits trial for Gandhi’s murder. Footnote no more: The > rehabilitation of Godse is now visible across the country in the form of > statues > <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/world/asia/india-gandhi-nathuram-godse.html> > , temples > <https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/states/story/20171204-madhya-pradesh-nathuram-godse-temple-hindu-mahasabha-1092724-2017-11-24>, > and memorials > <https://www.timesnownews.com/india/article/godse-gyan-shala-hindu-mahasabha-opens-study-centre-dedicated-to-nathuram-godse-in-mp-s-gwalior/705569>. > The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, which is governed by the BJP, even made > a bid to rename the city of Meerut after Godse (though it ultimately > failed > <https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/meerut-nathuram-godse-nagar-name-will-not-change-up-government-573743> > ). > > What little is known about Gandhi’s killer, however, suggests that the > Hindu-nationalist symbol he has become bears little resemblance to the man > he actually was. Chandrasekhar wrote Godse in *The Father and the > Assassin* as neither an ideologue like Savarkar nor a political giant > like Gandhi. Rather, Godse emerges as an impressionable young man questing > for a sense of purpose in a country undergoing immense change. He > eventually found that calling in an ideology of jingoism and hate, which > the play suggests was rooted in a phobia about being seen as weak or > effeminate because his parents had initially raised him as a girl, fearing > that he would otherwise share the fate of three older male siblings who had > died in infancy. > > Today, Godse “is presented as a nationalist, as someone who was very much > concerned about Hindu interests, but the reality was completely different,” > Dhirendra K. Jha, the author of *Gandhi’s Assassin: The Making of > Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India*, told me. Far from being deeply > religious or patriotic, Jha argued, Godse was loyal only to the RSS and its > extremist aims. The group did not repay his loyalty after the > assassination—attempting to distance itself by claiming that Godse was no > longer a member. Even Godse adopted this party line, though Jha said that > archival records tell a different story > <https://thewire.in/books/rss-godse-gandhi-assassin-dhirendra-jha-book-excerpt>. > The disgrace and disavowals seem a long way from India today, where some > BJP politicians have gone out of their way to express their admiration > <https://www.deccanherald.com/national/south/godse-supporter-wins-election-in-tamil-nadu-on-bjp-ticket-1084128.html>for > Godse. > > The question of Nathuram Godse’s real identity is, in a sense, irrelevant. > As with most political symbols > <https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/11/guy-fawkess-misunderstood-legacy/601336/>, > their utility has little to do with how closely they cleave to historical > accuracy. “The appeal of Godse doesn’t rely so much on Godse,” Komireddi > said. “The appeal of Godse really rests in the appeal of Modi and the kind > of country India is becoming > > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. 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