[Reader-list] Gandhi

[taraprakash]

Now the below comment is going to be very controversial. Hasn't Mayavati, the principle died already. So the portraits are actually posthumous. 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rakesh Iyer 
  To: taraprakash 
  Cc: Aditya Raj Kaul ; sarai list 
  Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 9:27 AM
  Subject: Re: Gandhi


  Dear TaraPrakash

  I am in complete agreement with what you have said. Because for me, it's not the person but the idea which is more important. Unfortunately, in India, we have a tendency to revere the personalities rather than their ideas. 

  That's why today Gandhi and Nehru have been turned into mere statues, instead of all of us trying to learn something from them. And that's why Mayawati wants statues of herself made in U.P even before she dies. 

  Regards

  Rakesh