Gandhi was not merely a politician to India. Had he been one, he would have legitimately claimed to be the first prime minister of the nation. He was an incredible mix of a politician and spiritual master. Gandhi’s birthday, which falls on October 2, is celebrated as Gandhi Jayanti in India.
Gandhi commanded a moral force that not many world leaders have ever managed to possess in their life. The whole of India was at his beck and call. When he started a fast-unto-death Sathyagraha, people took to the streets in support of the cause whatever it was. When Gandhi suggested boycotting of foreign goods, the crowd heaped all of them together and burned them in the streets. For his Dandi March, thousands of people joined him against the notorious salt law. Gandhi showed the world a new path: the pat of love and protest through non-violence.
Gandhi was not made of common clay; rather he was the fulfillment of the needs of the time. Einstein, one of the greatest scientists the world has ever seen, rightly said of him; ‘I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time’.
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