Isn’t it cool to hate him? Of course it is. It is very cool to hate someone who is loved by billions. I don’t know about others, but I hate this old man—it feeds my ego, it sets me apart from the majority of people out there.
Did you ever read about him? You wont find him so great after all. Certainly not someone worthy enough to be called the ‘Father of our Nation’. I am not alone. There are many more people like me who provide the fodder for my thoughts, and from whom I can easily borrow arguments that let me hate this old man. Hating him is in, it’s the trend.
I never read any literature on Gandhi, not even his full autobiography. I had to study a few chapters about him in school, but, to be honest, my only sources of information are Facebook posts by random people, and blogs written by attention-seekers. It is from these people that I learnt a lot about Gandhi, which led me to hate him.
Now, here’s why I hate him.
Pro-Muslim Stand
Who is he to support Muslim Indians? Is it not because of them that the Muslim League was started, which led to the Partition? Shouldn’t Gandhi have taken a pro-Hindu stand on every issue? When thousands of Hindus died during the Partition in Pakistan, what was this drinker of goat milk doing? Saving Muslims in India! Since they killed Hindus in Pakistan, isn’t it a natural response to kill them here? There is no rocket science in this. Why didn’t this old, half-naked man get this simple logic?
Partition
We all know he was against Partition and wanted to make Muhammad Ali Jinnah the Prime Minister of United India. He wanted Hindus and Muslims to live in a same country in peace and harmony and wanted to counter Jinnah’s stance that Muslims would not get fair deal in a Hindu-majority country. He thought this is possible. What as stupid guy.
Non-Cooperation
He was the reason for our delayed Independence. Why the hell did he end the movement when it was at its peak? So what if movement was losing its momentum. So what if people were unemployed, not earning their livelihood for over a year. So what if they were losing patience and burned a police station. Does it matter? No.
Subhas Chandra Bose
I love Netaji BOSE. What a great fighter he was! And since I love him, by default I have to hate Gandhi. I heard that Gandhi, who first treated Bose like his son, later wanted Bose out of his office as Congress president, and secretly worked to make it happen. When Bose founded the INA, Gandhi went to the extent of signing an agreement with the British (along with his two boot-lickers Nehru and Azad) stating that they would hand over Bose to the colonisers as soon as he enters India. What a demon he must be! And so much for his nationalism!
Bose also had his own ideological differences with Gandhi, and he never believed in achieving Independence through Gandhi’s method of Non-Violence. He attacked various policies of the Congress. Now, I would have supported Gandhi if he had changed his non-violent stance and joined the INA started by Bose. But he didn’t.
Bhagat Singh
This is worse than Bose issue. Gandhi didn’t try to stop the execution of Bhagat Singh and others. Oh yeah, historical facts suggest otherwise—that he wrote a letter to Lord Irwin, the then Viceroy of India, and pleaded for their release. But when have I bothered to check historical facts and shape my opinion? Who wants to know that even Bhagat Singh was against the idea of asking for pardon declined to sign a petition for clemency?
Now, I would like to love Bhagat singh instead of Gandhi because it boosts my ego. The question is: how can I love Bhagat Singh without hating Gandhi? Come on, don’t be childish now. It isn’t possible.
B. R. Ambedkar
I never cared to understand state affairs and caste issues, but Ambedkar was right and Gandhi was wrong. Period!
Patel-Nehru Issue
It is well known that Gandhi was in love with Nehru. He preferred Nehru over Patel even when all Congress members wanted Patel to be our first Prime Minister. Who cares if he wanted a stable government in India? But he committed a mistake, so he is responsible for the all the wrong judgments that Nehru made afterwards.
His Experiment With Women
Well, at first I thought he experimented only with truth. What is this habit of making women (including his own grandniece) sleep naked with him? This sex addict preached about and claimed to follow celibacy? Being a man of experiments, he wanted to test himself, and he was even open about this with his family and friends. But that doesn’t justify his intent to use women as objects or apparatus for his experiments. Since he is wearing the crown of Mahatma, I expect him to be above all wrong-doings.
55 Crore Payment To Pakistan
Now, he should have waited for this I think. It’s only right that if you make a promise you keep it, but the timing was pretty bad.
There are many more accusations from me against him, like the misappropriation of public funds, his anti-untouchables stand, and his lavish life style (contrary to popular perception). I never care to check facts or bother to read credible historic books. I’m not even ashamed, because when I share these things on social media, I get attention, and that’s what I want.
I would like to ignore the fact that Gandhi’s Independence movement was the world’s largest people’s movement, and the one that attracted the maximum number of women participants in its time. I don’t want to believe that an entire nation rallied behind him. I overlook the fact that his mere presence and fasting in many riot-hit areas was enough to calm the tension between Hindus and Muslims. What nerve would it take to run such a movement with only truth and Non Violence as weapons? Oh, just forget it. So boring, and so not cool. So what if the Non Cooperation Movement was one of India’s first nationalist, and sustained, people’s movement? So what if millions in the middle- and lower-classes participated in politics just because a brown man invited them? So what if thousands flocked to jails only to show support to their leader? So what if he inspired a huge population? So what if he was a master communicator at a time when there was minimal infrastructure for it? So what if his stature has never been matched by any other individual in our history?
I hate him because I am different. I hate him because I am a 21st century Dude. I hate him because I am cool, you know.