Disowning Gandhiji is a self goal of Himalayan proportions. Depsite all things it was he who lhad the vision to forge the many different streams of freedom thinking into a river of Independence.
And to bring change you have to capture power. One can rail in the wilderness as most Indian thinkers do, but thats uselss as it satisfies individual ego that they were right, but it does nothing to correct the system. Its this lack of controlling the ego for common good that is the root of Indian malaise.
BTW the Westminister system is the right choice for India and the different groups for they get to have their say. In the US presdential system won't work in India as there is no homogenous group in large numbers. Yes there are faults in the Westminister system that the Indian founding fathers did not envisage. They never thought that there would be disparate groups that would get electted and then combine to keep others out from hatred.
The great thinkers in historical period- Chanakaya, Vidyaranya, Ramdas and Gandhiji channeled the different streams into a powerful deluge that swept all the old order and paradigms.
Have you ever wondered why Tripurantaka Shiva used all those disparate things(Himvat parvat for bow, Vasuki for bow string, Vishnu for the arrow, and the Devas for his Chariot to shoot the arrow at the three cities/forts of the rakshasas ? He could have burnt them all with his third eye yet he sought the cooperation of the devas and nature to blow the paradigm away. Even the dasa avataras are similar in core message of how to change the paradigm. My favorite is Narasimha avatara.
And to bring change you have to capture power. One can rail in the wilderness as most Indian thinkers do, but thats uselss as it satisfies individual ego that they were right, but it does nothing to correct the system. Its this lack of controlling the ego for common good that is the root of Indian malaise.
BTW the Westminister system is the right choice for India and the different groups for they get to have their say. In the US presdential system won't work in India as there is no homogenous group in large numbers. Yes there are faults in the Westminister system that the Indian founding fathers did not envisage. They never thought that there would be disparate groups that would get electted and then combine to keep others out from hatred.
The great thinkers in historical period- Chanakaya, Vidyaranya, Ramdas and Gandhiji channeled the different streams into a powerful deluge that swept all the old order and paradigms.
Have you ever wondered why Tripurantaka Shiva used all those disparate things(Himvat parvat for bow, Vasuki for bow string, Vishnu for the arrow, and the Devas for his Chariot to shoot the arrow at the three cities/forts of the rakshasas ? He could have burnt them all with his third eye yet he sought the cooperation of the devas and nature to blow the paradigm away. Even the dasa avataras are similar in core message of how to change the paradigm. My favorite is Narasimha avatara.