Diwali, the festival of lights, the Indian Christmas, is finally here! I’d like to take this opportunity to wish all of you a very happy Diwali and may God bless you all with pure happiness. On a personal note I’d like to make a tiny little request. This year show that you care for the environment. Be sensible, you don’t have to burst crackers to express your joy, light up your place well and share your joy with everyone around you. Let’s all have a green Diwali this year!
Happy Diwali again!
It’s 2nd October here in India and it’s a well known national holiday. People like you and me are enjoying the extended sleep and a heavy brunch. The newspapers are of course carrying their due share of the Gandhi crap, just making sure we remember why college was off today. Gandhi is believed to be responsible for getting our nation firangi-free using his non-violent tactics. I think of my school days when we used to cram awful load of four-pages-Gandhi-text to gain a few extra points. Now I’ve started to feel that all that they teach at history classes during school is either a lie or incomplete truth.
Is it wasn’t so then how come they never taught us about the great brahamachari experiment Gandhi conducted on himself. To master celibacy he would sleep naked with young girls. In Ved Mehta’s Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles, Mehta emphasizes on the fact that Gandhi’s experiment was an attempt to overpower Jinnah with his spiritual power. We call this dude the Father of the Nation?
Continue Reading This Article