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With some exceptions, most of them have scant respect for his simplicity and political morality for which he stood and sacrificed his life. Gandhji is still popular in many countries and as for the postal departments across the globe Mahatma Gandhi is a thematic favorite. “He is honored by over a 100 countries.
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If Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, an Apostle of Non-Violence were alive to see for himself the following he would shed tears
01. Nauseating clashes between caste Hindus and Dalits across India.
02. Irregularities in elections and horse trading in the name of alliance among parties whose ideologies are poles apart.
03. Using caste as vote banks and money power to get votes.
04. Rampant corruption in every thing and every where and nepotism practiced by some higher-ups.
05. Politics has become a money-spinning business. Even the criminals have a chance and made their presence felt.
06. Central and state ministries hit many scams. The amazing thing is, if politicians caught red handed, they know the legal holes through which they can come out unscathed.
07. Abusing and misusing political power. Grabbing of government lands or temple lands for personal gains with the help of goondas - local rowdies or thugs.
08. Lately, responsible politicians have scant respect for the Supreme Court rulings as in the case of the temple lands, etc.
09. Prevalence of linguistic chauvinism in a few states. Language fanatics set fire to public properties, including a fleet of costly buses over trivial thing, using various pretexts.
10. Frequent breakdowns of the business hours during parliament sessions by certain nethas who create chaos and pandemonium.
If Gandhi were alive to day he would positively send our nethas either to the gallows or put them on the pillory or wield an AK 47 to make them work sincerely.
Being a torch-bearer of non-violence, he might regret and hang his head in shame for the simple reasons why he worked hard to free India from the British yoke. Our nethas neither care about the unity and integrity of a country. Nor do they understand the value of freedom, free speech, etc. Because of their irresponsibility, many anti-India forces are mushrooming across many states to split the country. As the nethas with no ethics or patriotic feelings turn a blind eye on them.
Presented below are some of the political cartoon images of Gandhiji taken from many sources. The credit is given below each image. Cartoons relating Gandhiji and our Indian leaders might interest you. Many of them are thought-provoking.
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Above image: At 6-30 in the morning of March 12, 1930 march to Dandi (Gujarat), a deserted village on the shore of the Arabian Sea, 240 miles away. He said he would not return to the ashram until the Salt Act had been repealed and swaraj won. Seventy-eight volunteers and thousands of others accompanied him. This Czech cartoon depicts Gandhi and his non-violent army of freedom fighters defying the armed might of the British Empire.
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Above image: The British Government in India, pictured as a lion, was thoroughly infuriated by the mass civil disobedience movement which followed Gandhi's breaking the salt law. There were violent disturbances in numerous places across India, to which the Government reacted by unloosing all the force it had at its disposal against the satyagrahis. Gandhi wrote at that time: "if we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of cavalry or baton charges and allow ourselves to be trampled under horses' hooves, or be bruised with baton charges.
The European and American Press took the cause of Indian freedom sympathetically. They reported the civil disobedience-movement extensively to give wide publicity. Cartoonists in these countries also took up the cause of Indian independence. In this drawing which appeared in Kladderadatsch, a very popular humorous weekly of Berlin between the two world wars, India is shown moving inexorably towards freedom under the guidance of Gandhi despite the frantic efforts of the British establishment to halt it by brute force.
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Above image: This picture shows a balding man locking up Gandhi in a jail cell, while thousands of Gandhis are behind the man, watching him. This picture symbolizes the situation Lord Willingdon was put in, in which he locked up Gandhi. He got himself into a predicament. He thought that by locking him up, he would stop all of the “peaceful fighting” that Gandhi used, but once he was locked up, unexpected happened. Everyone else rallied together to act like Gandhi, hence everyone taking the image of Gandhi. Lord Willingdon looks very bewildered in the picture, as when he locked up one Gandhi, thousands more took his place.
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The British started deifying and adoring Gandhiji. This cartoon titled "The saint and the tiger" (Cartoonist - David Low (1891-1963) Published - Evening Standard, 20 Jan 1948).
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