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Janurary 30, 1948, was waiting to be burnt into the memory of the generation which was then young or growing up during the freedom movement in India. The
assassin who felled Mahatma Gandhi on the evening of that fateful day was re-enacting the Crucifixion with a murderous sophistication. Even if Gandhi
could say very little while he was dying within the next few seconds his “Hey Ram” could well have meant as much as Jesus had said while pleading
with God to forgive those who were killing him since they knew not what they were doing. During the few months left for him since Indira became free in
August 1947, Gandhi was striving desperately to save partitioned India bleeding from the communal fratricide with frantic appeals for the restoration
of peace and harmony. His assassin, who was driven by a mindless fury and hate, was personification of the evil which was waging at the time its biblical
war against the good to claim Gandhi as its victim. Looking back upon the dreadful event half a century later, one would be inclined to believe that Bernard
Shaw’s moving comment on the killing of Gandhi about how dangerous it was to be good still remains true. The endangered species of history ranges from
Jesus to Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi, John Kennedy and Martin Luther King, to mention just a few. A nation which was shocked and stupefied by the assassination
of Gandhi was hoping that the healing touch which he had been trying to provide to the country torn by the communal fury in the wake of Partition would
assassin who felled Mahatma Gandhi on the evening of that fateful day was re-enacting the Crucifixion with a murderous sophistication. Even if Gandhi
could say very little while he was dying within the next few seconds his “Hey Ram” could well have meant as much as Jesus had said while pleading
with God to forgive those who were killing him since they knew not what they were doing. During the few months left for him since Indira became free in
August 1947, Gandhi was striving desperately to save partitioned India bleeding from the communal fratricide with frantic appeals for the restoration
of peace and harmony. His assassin, who was driven by a mindless fury and hate, was personification of the evil which was waging at the time its biblical
war against the good to claim Gandhi as its victim. Looking back upon the dreadful event half a century later, one would be inclined to believe that Bernard
Shaw’s moving comment on the killing of Gandhi about how dangerous it was to be good still remains true. The endangered species of history ranges from
Jesus to Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi, John Kennedy and Martin Luther King, to mention just a few. A nation which was shocked and stupefied by the assassination
of Gandhi was hoping that the healing touch which he had been trying to provide to the country torn by the communal fury in the wake of Partition would
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