Cosmopolitan nationalist
A safe and non-controversial Gandhi legacy today is his example, currently in vogue in business school courses, as a servant-leader and team-builder. But he is no longer popular in the nation that used to call him father. For Indians who hate his commitment to Hindu-Muslim friendship, Gandhi is in fact an untouchable, which is what he had prayed to become one day, to feel more fully the misery of India's Dalits.
His fall in India would not have shocked him. He had said in 1915, within weeks of returning from South Africa, where he had devised his satyagraha strategy, that while he foresaw a large following in India for satyagraha, he also knew that one day supporters would throw him overboard, for he would not give up positions they disliked.
If, in our land of different religions, many Indians today
