Countercurrents: To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self respect and oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true....Truth has drawn me into the field of politics.--M. K. Gandhi.
Another Gandhi Jayanti arrives and it will be 'celebrated' with usual platitudes. But it is high time we went beyond the meaningless rhetoric, and grasped the real spirit of Gandhian politics in order to save not only India but the world...