Lost Gandhian India: Notes on ‘Gandhi Godse – Ek Yudh’
The DiplomatWhat if Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi had not been murdered in 1948? A recent Hindi movie, “Gandhi Godse – Ek Yudh,” is an interesting instance of how to debate history but also, unfortunately, an example of how not to make a film. Even one of the essays I read in my college Hindi textbook discussed what Gandhi would have said and done had he lived in today’s India. But there is another frontline here too: between Gandhi, who was also skeptical about technological progress and envisaged self-sufficient villages as the cornerstone of India’ life, and the centralizing, socialist, pro-industrial government of independent India. The post-1947 India thus tried to catch up with the world’s industrial growth, and I believe the government would have charted this path with or without Gandhi.
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