Owning Gandhi: Why BJP, RSS seek the company of the Mahatma
For the BJP, appropriating the Mahatma is crucial to being seen as the party that defines the idea of India.
One strange thing about evil is that it wants to be remembered as good. Murderers want to be loved by their victims and be seen as their deliverers. Hitler unleashed death and destruction on Jews and other dissenters but loved being photographed with children and smiling young women.
His admirers would like you to believe he had rare human qualities, that he loved music. Is it hypocrisy that his music collection had Jewish musicians even if he had declared there was no Jewish art?
A follower of Stalin, reproaching me for my criticism of his hero, said that he was a man of such fine sensibility that he could hear the sound of the grass growing! Criminals want to be remembered as educationists, and mass murderers
