Power of truth
All of us read in our history books that a saint named Mahatma Gandhi got our independence from Britishers. He used non violent means of protests. But i always wondered what is non violent means of protests. You do hunger fasts, dharnas, refuse to wear foreigner clothes, leave your jobs and don't take your salary. In other words since you are suffering so you take on more suffering. And if above all are not enough you should be also prepared to go to jail and face police brutality. But you can not strike back at the system. What is this, why would have Britishers left because of this. Indeed India gained independence after the second world war. At that time several countries gained independence from Britishers, since England was too weak to govern its large empire after second world war. So it does not seem to me that Gandhi's method had any significant impact on date of our independence. When i read history books than it seemed to me that his methods rather worked to delay a m...