How did Gandhi become the supreme leader of India with so poor intellect?

Question

Tagore asked gandhi about duty of him in freedom struggle.Gandhi advised him to run Charka[handloom] for at least one hour a day.Rabindranath was astonised very much and asked gandhi that if charka is the supreme goal of life,then why he wouldn"t play it day and night?.He ordered to stop satyagraha on the excuse of a trivial event in Chourichoura[because british would be angry].He put his personal igo the first preference than the interest of his nation.He tried to amulgate KHILAFAT movement[a communal movement] with satyagraha.He forced india to follow his bogus non-violence theory.His narrow mind expelled Subhas from congress despite being elected twice as congress president and put most corrupt and selfish person as PM of india.This family have been enjoying power generation after ganeration and a foreigner became the almighty god of india through that route.Ganghi could not stand upright,he had to grab other"s shoulder and stick to stand.Isn"t a woder for him to be a leader.

Answer 1

Though majority of the house are against the motion,but I"d like to support the motion.Rabindranath Tagore was a great poet.India earned the first noble prize of asia due to his contribution in literature.Asking him to run Charka is nothing but mere wastage of his valuable time meanwhile he could write some great creation in his field.Rabinranath expressed his solidarity to nation by rejecting NIGHTHOOD offered by british in protest against Jalianwalabag genocide.His pen had awaken nation by innumerable patriotic literature as a result indians got their national and human identity ,self respect.He didnt need a gimic like charka to prove his identity.
Furthermore ,mixing of KHILAFAT and asahayog movement was a political immaturity.
Thirdly ,international politics is a hard reality.There is no place of romanticism there.Non-violence sounds very good,but application of this delicate ideology to mass people is an utopian dream.Some person or organization may follow it but its forceful application to entire nation is detrimental to its security.Please remember humiliating defeat in china war and its consequences.If ahimsa is so fruitful, why gandhi"s party is spending most of the national money in defence?Why nehru sent troops to hyderabad,kashmir and goa?
Nasty politics against Subhas exposed the narrow mind of gandhi and a black spot in his career.As a result india lost a very potential leader and a weak leader like nehru couldnt spoil our country.
Gandhi helped the brish in first and second world war despite of their atrocities against indians.Thousands of youth died in vain.
Gandhiji was responsible for refugee problem in india.Crores of people turned beggar overnight.In Punjab and Bengal,lakhs of people lost their life,wealth and IZZAT.Non-violence theory didnt protect them.
He might be a good man but India had to suffer a lot due to such experiments of the leaders.
His activity facilitated british raj both directly and indirectly.
Khadi movement could be a supplementary to industrialization but no country could succeed in economy based entirely on small-scale industry.
We all know that he was a saint but at the same time we"ve heard about his experiments with different married and unmarried ladies by sharing same bed at night.Tussle started with Jaiprakash Narayan when gandhi started the same treatment with his wife.
After observing the hypocracies day by day ,one of the gandhi"s son converted himself to islam.
Lastly great persons are needed to be revaluated in the light of argument and time.Nobody is MAHATMA -taken for granted.If somebody fails to listen the call of time, his place will be in the dust-bin of history.Glorifying such leader humiliates the sacrifices,struggle and QURBANI of other great leaders in freedom-struggle of india.JAI HIND. VANDEMATARAM.

Answer 2

This is a shame for the Congress for not having the capacity to choose a more promising Candidate for the PM post in 55 yrs but another Gandhi, that speaks volumes about the state of affairs in the Congress, Its also a shame for the Country as to why are we electing them at all again and again? What is his qualification ? Just becoz he belongs to this Gandhy Family, he is eleigible to be the PM? Moreover the entire congress is questioning the contribution of Advaniji for the nation except the Babri Masjid, I am asking what is the contribution of Raul ? And on what basis The current PM ( ? ) and Priyanka telling the Nation that Raul is eligible to become the PM ? This is the height of Hypocrisy and sooner we change this scenario in Indian Politics the better or else we will not have time even to mourn this BIG political mistake in the history of this country.

Answer 3

First, and obviously, if you are going to accuse someone of having a poor intellect, look to yourself first. The question you just posted is virtually illiterate -- full of misspellings, misinformation, and ignorance.

Now to the core:

1. Ghandi recommended working the loom for 1 hour a day because it was a way of meditation and a way of keeping oneself grounded in reality. All too often our leaders start to think that they are somehow better than the rest of us. That has become a greater and greater problem is the US as our leaders become more and more isolated from us. That is what Ghandi was trying to avoid.

2. "Bogus nonviolence." Define bogus. To me it means that it does not work. But it did. The Indians, under Ghandi, sat down nonviolently, and the British Empire surrendered. Some years later, another great leader, Martin Luther King, followed Ghandi's example and change the US.

Answer 4

Its a shame that we have to answer such a question on the eve of Gandhi jayanti.

In fact it is not a question but antinational school of thoughts which has been propagated and nurtured by RSS.

I am quite sure of it that Mr. Swadesh has been a student of 'Shishu Mandir' where he got his primary education from.
Such antinational things are taught in these pr. schools.

Remember if Gandhiji was not to lead the freedom struggle, India would have not been united to uproot the Britishers. And the freedom movement would have faced the same fate as that of 1857.

I am surprised that the follwers of an antinational organisation which never took part in the freedom movement [ often helped Brtish govt by passing informations of the fr. fighters ] has been nurturing such views.

I REQUEST ALL THE READERS TO TAKE A NOTE OF THE COMMENT, "BOGUS THEORY OF NON-VIOLENCE" OF GANDHIJI.

According to him VIOLENCE should be the key factor. Then why these people consider muslims only to be violent. In fact It has always been there in thier mind and deeds of such peoples.

India has never ever produced such a down to earth leader who not only moved India but whole world by his thoughts/ views / philosophy and deeds.

Happy Gandhi Jayanti to all peace lovers...

Answer 5

It astonishes me that a man of such intelligence could not but understand the simple teachings of a simple man. All it implies is that as a great poet writer novelist he should go on performing his job and spin the yarn for an hour to show his solidarity with the freedom struggle.

Your interpretations of most things you have written are absurd and unjustified. Read and find the answers for yourself for these are issues that need to be understood and not just answered.

Frailty of body is acceptable but not frailty of the mind .
Your observations look like the notes taken at an 'adda' session.
PS: at least be consistent in the spelling of Gandhi. For the one thing Gandhiji possessed that the others didn't was consistency in his approach towards Freedom. Read more (the crusade within you has already begun with this query ) and you shall - Learn to Salute him.

Answer 6

Non violence did not work anywhere else. It worked only in India because 100,000 troops were dealing with 350 million population which is a nightmare. Finally Indepndence was an eye wash. The power was just transfered to the Indian elites and cronies who remain loyal to the white man till this day. All their chidren and families are holding diplomatic passport of Britain and are busy in swindling and protecting the wealth.For ordinary people nothing has changed. The quality of life has gone worse since independence.

Answer 7

You have all it wrong.He set up a personal example of supreme sacrifice.When guns was the only solution for political settlements heshowed the way to the world that through peaceful struggle also the same solution can be achieved.we obviosly could not face British with guns.Subash allied with Japanese.If that happened it would have been worse.True Gandhi had fallacies.But who does not have?

Answer 8

I am all for entertaining any question under the Sun in Yahoo answers for it starts communication which is desirable in itself. But even I feel that such obviously not ignorant but mischevous question should not have been allowed . If there is no suitable community guidelines one should be introduced. As it is most of the answers have made mincemeat of the peanut brain of the enquirer and I need not repeat the show.

Answer 9

Well, he became a leader of Indian people because he was a great man and not stupid at all. And mostly because he was for change without using violence; this in sharp contrast to some other so called world powers.

Answer 10

I am not going to mwaste my time to answer such a ridiculous question. Read a biography about him, if you cant read rent the movie. Winston Churchill, FDR< and The Dahli Lama along with Gandi were /are perhaps the greatest men who lived in the 20th century.