The Naked Fakir Nowhere during the process of casting slurs at Gandhi do we think of him as a human being.Some of us tend to find scapegoats for the failures experienced by us as a nation today, some of us do not even think that far and just think of his policies as the signs of an old man`s impotence. I too believe that Gandhi was not a Mahatma, because I do not believe in the sanctity of the word, and I too agree that Gandhi had no place in the India of today surrounded by hostile neighbours and arms races, he would have been a burden on the national decision makers, but for what it`s worth, I do think that Gandhi was a great man, he was one of the greatest contributors to forge a movement from a random motion, and he was true to his principles, besides being one of the greatest leader of men.If you can find one more person of that kind in Indian history, that would be the time to rewrite history.Gandhi bashing has become a sort of idle passtime for us, like swatting flies, cursing the government, we want blood, we want grenades, we want to hear of the bloody firangis being crushed like flies in the thundering rush of a charge led by the likes of Bhagat Singh and Subhash Chandra Bose, but great men as they were, India did not, and does not have the power of self control necessary to sustain a violent freedom struggle, and even as we plagiarise Gandhi today, I see scrawled on the walls of my college slogans like `Netaji Subhash will return to save the nation` written by a band of boys high on mescaline, I am forced to think, is that the height of impotence and cowardice or not ? Subhash Chandra Bose did his bit, he is probably dead and ash now, he was a normal man and not Jesus to be resurrected, he will return to save the country, what are we doing meanwhile, are we some sort of passengers who do not have to pay for the ride ? Pick from your favourite freedom fighters, pick Bhagat Singh or Subhash Chandra Bose for their (imagined) bloodthirst and dialogue delivery, leave your judgement to the likes of RajKumar Santoshi, ask Leo Mattel to produce mass manufactured action figures for Khudiram Bose or Ram Prasad Bismil, and make Gandhi the butt of all our jokes. That is what we are reduced to today.