…No one knew Mahatma Gandhi. When the movie ‘Gandhi’ was made for the primary time, the world grew to become curious as to who had come?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated this in an interview to a tv channel. After this, he’s being severely criticized.
Congress additionally criticized the Prime Minister for his assertion and individuals are making enjoyable of him in varied methods on social media. This clip from the Prime Minister’s interview given to ABP channel is being shared quite a bit on social media.
However, was it true that Mahatma Gandhi was not well-known on this planet earlier than Richard Attenborough’s movie ‘Gandhi’ (1982) was launched? That is completely not the case.
The world well-known and reputed American journal ‘Time’ printed Mahatma Gandhi on its cowl web page in its January 5 concern in 1931 and wrote a canopy article on him with the headline “Saint Gandhi”: Man of the 12 months 1930. Time journal had by no means used the phrase ‘saint’ for any Indian earlier than this.
Earlier, within the concern of March 31, 1930 and afterward June 30, 1947, Time journal had printed Mahatma Gandhi on its cowl web page and had written articles about him.
Articles on Mahatma Gandhi have been printed in lots of well-known magazines
One other well-known journal of that period was ‘Life’. It additionally carried Gandhi’s image and an article on him on 25 March 1946. On 9 February 1948, ‘Newsweek’, {a magazine} thought-about to be a rival of ‘Time’, additionally carried Mahatma Gandhi on its cowl web page. This concern of the journal, which was printed just a few days after his assassination, had an article on Mahatma Gandhi, titled INDIA: After Gandhi, What? Clearly, the information of his assassination on 30 January (1948) was already in all of the newspapers and magazines of the nation and the world.
When Gandhi turned down the invitation to fulfill Charlie Chaplin
In 1931, when Mahatma Gandhi went to London for the Spherical Desk Convention, eminent personalities from each discipline have been keen to fulfill him. Even the giants of the movie world. Nonetheless, Gandhi had little interest in movies. Gandhi had talked about an incident in a letter to certainly one of his associates Brij Krishna Chandiwala when Gauhar Jaan had supplied him Rs 12,000 in money. The situation was that Gandhi ought to come to hearken to her singing. Gauhar Jaan was a well-known music star of that period.
Gandhi used to get many such requests. Throughout that point, Charlie Chaplin, who had come to London to advertise his movie, additionally tried his greatest to fulfill him. Gandhi had initially rejected his request as nicely, however on the persuasion of somebody near him, he agreed to fulfill him. Charlie Chaplin’s son has additionally talked about this assembly in his father’s biography.
‘Such an influential persona has not been born for a lot of generations
After Gandhi’s assassination, the then US President Harry S. Truman despatched a condolence message by which he described Gandhi as a pacesetter of worldwide stature and stated that his pondering influenced thousands and thousands of individuals. On Gandhi’s assassination, the ‘London Occasions’ wrote for him – India had not produced such an influential persona for a lot of generations earlier than Gandhi.
Martin Luther King Jr. was additionally deeply influenced by Mahatma Gandhi. In 1950, when Harvard College President M. Johnson was narrating his expertise of his go to to India, Junior was very impressed. Johnson talked about Gandhi’s non-violent methodology for the motion.
Martin Luther King Jr. instantly accepted this path of Gandhi and stated, ‘Gandhi proved in India that the vacation spot will be reached by following the trail proven by Jesus.’ Later, King Jr. even referred to as Gandhi ‘the best Christian of the fashionable period’.
Congress’s reply to PM’s allegation
The Prime Minister accused the Congress of not taking steps to make Mahatma Gandhi world well-known, whereas the Congress stated that they (BJP) have been attempting their greatest to destroy the thought named Gandhi for the final 75 years. For this, they’re always supporting Gandhi’s killers and conspirators. Regardless of this, they don’t seem to be getting success in destroying Gandhi’s concept.
Massive query: How many individuals who know Gandhi respect him?
It’s extra essential to imagine in Gandhi than to know him. There have been folks in our personal nation who didn’t imagine in him. That’s the reason the worshipper of non-violence, Bapu, needed to lose his life by falling prey to bullets.
