Lage Raho Munnabhai confirmed Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s place in the life of the globalised young Indian. The word ‘Gandhigiri’ entered the pop lexicon, Gandhi T shirts, Gandhi mugs proliferated as the loin cloth-clad vegetarian Founding Father became trendier than he had ever been, earlier captured in bronze and stamped in currency notes, now our very own merry Mahatma of the malls, as we hummed ‘Bande mein tha dum’ and attempted a
Munnabhai-like jaadu ki jhappi when we wanted to be modern-day satyagrahis.
That BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj had to apologise and retract from his praise of Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse reportedly on the orders of the PM
himself and as a result of a public outcry, shows that however hard Nathuram fans in Read More
