Why do some followers of Gandhi show him no respect?

Question

Gandhi didn't want India and Pakistan to split. But people hang a portrait of Gandhi on their walls, yet, these people like to bad mouth other cultures. Why?

Ajay: I am an educated Indian. Although, as Scott said, he was not able to stop the hate, I respect him for at least trying to unite the two countries. I admire him for his tolerance towards all cultures.

Rahul: re-read the question.

R.K. k. I believe it is possible. You can admire him for one thing, but not for another.

Answer 1

perhaps they still like his teachings but not that one opinion

Answer 2

Specificly with partition, it was because Gandhi was seen as a figure of the past. He strongly wanted a religous solution to India's problems. The leadership of the Indian National Congress took a more sucular approach.

However, Gandhi was still respected. In the bloodshed of partition, when everyone was trying to get to their side, Gandhi was fasting, and threatening to do so until death. The fighting stopped while Gandhi was in his last days. I admit I am at a loss to explain the current hatred. Gandhi was never able to stop that.

Answer 3

Nehru wanted a split.I dislike Gandhi because he was actually soft-cornered to Nehru.Gandhi opposed election of S.C.Bose as Congress President and forced him to resign.At-last,congress
only obtain votes of poors,illiterates in his name and never acted on alleged Gandhian Philosophy.And educated Indians do not like Gandhi.

Answer 4

Congress leaders stopped listening to Gandhi, even during his life time. It is fashionable for every body to attribute all failures to Gandhi, little knowing that had we listened to Gandhi, we would not have faced many of our present problems, like Indo-Pak war, Kashmir problem, unemployment, etc.

Answer 5

At the out set It was not split between India & Pakistan during 1947 as there was no Pakistan. In fact it was split between ambitions of Nehru and Jinnah in un devided India of 47.
Gandhi could not control their ambitions and had tilted towards Nehru without caring the lives of Hindus. He preached non voilence to non violent people in Hindu majority areas but never dared to visit voilents areas of Punjab and Frontier.
Gandhism was applicable where people were non voilent but not on battle grounds. where one community wanted to wipe off other community.
Those people who had high aspirations from Gandhism but lost all their possessions due his philoshphy can not be expected to give respect to him. More over this was Gandhi who insisted that 50 crore Rs to be given to Pakistan during 1948. Same money was used by Pakistan subsequently to wipe out Hindus from Kashmir

Answer 6

No one can respect all at all times. My son have no respect for my grand father. He has little respect for his grand father. We have to remain in present. We can not remember all old at all times. What is use in remebering Devi Devta / Mahapurush. I respect to my work.

Answer 7

The peoples of this sort are called double minded and they do so,

Answer 8

let's answer it metaphorically through this quote
"The Evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred* with their bones"

~William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar



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*oft interred = often burried

Answer 9

Because they believe in non violence for their cheap ends.

Answer 10

How can you be a follower of someone whom you do not respect?