Mahatma Gandhi: Hero or Sinner

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Although for many years this was the image and the only story of Mahatma Gandhi, as time passed and the people of Western countries started looking deeper and knowing more about him, they started reassessing Gandhi. Many people are against his reassessment saying that there is no point of doing so, since he is already dead for years. Not only is the west trying to reassess Gandhi, but it is also blaming him for the current issues in India. Today there are still problems in India dealing with ethnicity, religion and social classes. Even though many years have passed and there have been other leaders in place who led India for all those years after him, the west still believes that even the problems today are connected to Gandhi, and whatever that is happening in India today is what he has left as a legacy. Some believe that he has worsen the ethnical situation and only because of his philosophy that have passed like legacy from one leader to the other, India today still suffers from discrimination. After coming back to India from Africa Gandhi started to praise the Hindu caste system. From analyzing his speeches and his actions the western people today believe that all the racial and religious discrimination in India is caused by the speeches and philosophy of Gandhi, since all the leaders after him were his biggest fans and they would praise everything he had built therefore there are no other rights or wrongs but his words and rules. It is also believed that India till today has the elites controlling and the poor suffering only because it has been designed that way from the beginning, and for the beginning it is always Mahatma that is blamed, since he was the one starting the new India, the new life style and new rules and cultu...

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