LONG LIVE GANDHIJI
EDITORIAL by Faiz
Ahmed Faiz published in the
Pakistan Times, dt. Feb. 2, 1948
The British tradition
of announcing the death of a king is “The king is dead, long live the king!”Nearly
25 years ago, Mahatma Gandhi writing a moving editorial on the late C.R Das in his
exquisite English captioned it as “Deshbandhu is dead, long live Deshbandhu!” If
we have chosen such a title for our humble tribute to Gandhiji, it is because we
are convinced, more than ever before that very few indeed have lived in this degenerate
century who could lay greater claim to immortality than this true servant of humanity
and champion of downtrodden. An agonizing 48 hours at the time of writing this article,
have passed since Mahatma Gandhi left this mortal coil. ...Read More
