Gandhi in India Today

Douglas Allen, activist and professor of Philosophy at University of Maine in an interview with The Hindu, an excerpt:

I first came to India in 1963. People felt the need to parrot Gandhian slogans but no one really followed his ideals. In the 1980s, it was mostly the politicians who used him. In the 1990s, I found that politicians could take an open anti-Gandhi stand and still win an election. People were openly critical of Gandhi, something you would not hear in the 1960s.

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