Gandhi, Godse and Geeta

It almost passed as a moral dilema if script was not that week. Had the author used hypothetical characters instead of real ones (Gandhi & Godse) the case would have been stronger. Allow me to elaborate.

The author establishes the base of this dilemma by mentioning the battle between Kurus and Pandvas. That was the fatal mistake. Author builds up a case around the notions of ``good` and ``evil``. And tries to prove that one of the party was ``right` and the other was ``wrong``. Which means that author is capable of differentiating between the notions of good and evil and also he wants his readers to see in those terms. At this time lets assume that either one of kurus or pandwas can be ``good`` or ``evil``, which means that it is author`s own perspective; he may consider kurus as evil or vice versa.

Now we apply this postulate to Gandhi and Godse. Let us first assume that Gandhi is evil, then we can deduce from the limits set out by author that Godse must be good; conversely if we take the position that Godse was evil then Gandhi must be good. Now here lies the contradiction that voids this dilemma. Since in the first part of his hypothesis author establishes that he is capable of differentiating between good and evil but in the second part he wants us to believe that he can`t decide between good and evil. The second part of his hypothesis thus negates the first part. A thing cannot be true and false at the same time. It can either be true or false; and these were the constraints defined by author himself. In this case Geeta becomes irrelevant.

Nice try though.

Godse and Co. were p**sed off that Hindus didn`t put up a fight and saw partition as the final humiliation of Hindus by Muslims. They blamed it on Gandhi`s creed of non-violence.

The irony is that if there was one leader who was against partition, it was Gandhi. Nehru, Patel, Jinnah et. al. being politicians at their core, were the ones who ultimately carved up India.

PS to #3
Mr.Tandan,
I apologise for a tasteless query in a tasteless manner.

You raise intresting question. Na jaay raftan,na paay maNdan, as far as I am concerned. But I might learn from the interactions of others,more knowledgeable in the subject.A little nit-picking: isn`t it Bheeshm rather
than Bheesham...unless you are a Punjabi.
Regards.

Nand:

what a surprise!...welcome to chowk for now...comments later after i have read this...

rgds,

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...i wish you had not posted this article on chowk...this is not the place to discuss a topic like this...