Looking for Mahatma
Gandhi's face has returned to mass media. We now need space for
Gandhi's mind and heart.
The return of a Mahatma to our newspapers in January
2015 should be considered almost as a welcome as the return of Mohandas
Karamchand Gandhi to his motherland on January 9, 1915.
The year 1915 marked a seminal moment in history, for Gandhi’s
intervention in India’s freedom movement ended the era of European
colonisation, a process that progressed without setback for three centuries,
and never seemed stronger than it did in the first decade of the 20th century.
It was said, famously, that the sun did not set on the British
Empire. After Gandhi, the sun never rose on any empire.
