M K Gandhi: Sources, Ideas and Actions

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I have to give you a depressing answer, much as I don't like to. The glamour of modern technology, money and power is so seductive that no one – I mean no one – can resist it. And it may be that because of Gandhi we got our freedom before we were ready, before we had developed our character to catch the responsibilities. The handfuls of Gandhians who still believe in his philosophy of life in a simple society are mostly cranks.” -C. Rajgopalachari “There is no difference between the Britrish and their Indian successors. More than 25 yeas after independence, the poor are worse off than they were before. When Bapu talks about service to the country, better conditions for the poor, he did not mean Tvs, radios, and cars for the middle classes. He was talking about the basic requirements for physical life – two square meals a day, clean clothes, and shelter. What about the use of Brahmacharya and the freedom struggle when all of us are going to jail.” -J.B. Kriplani “Long before I retired from the world, our Government had swept aside most of the nascent element in the constructive programme as it's scrambled to industrialise the country on the western model.” -Vinoba Bhave “In India, Gandhi is dead. Gandhi is completely forgotten. It's the story of the Buddha all over again. When I was in India recently, I said in my speeches again and again, “Why do you not honour your own Prophets? Your Government does all the things that Gandhi opposed the British for doing – arm itself to the teeth, neglect the villages and the poor, support a huge, uncaring, remote bureaucracy.” -Abdul Ghaffar Khan

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Dr. R.K. Sinha was born in a small village in Muzaffarpur, Bihar in 1934. He was educated at Patna University and the University of Calcutta. He holds a Master degree in English and also in Prakrit, Jainology and Ahimsa. He was awarded a Ph-D Degree by Bihar University for his research work on Gandhiji. Dr. Sinha was a Minister in Bihar in 1971 and a Minister of State Labour and Parliamentary Affairs in the Janta Party Central Government led by Sri Morarjee Desai (1977-79). He retired as University Professor of English from B.U. Muzaffarpur, Bihar in 1966. Dr. Sinha has beena social and political activist for the last five decades.