I do not understand the hue and cry made on the bid to auction Mahatma Gandhi’s personal belongings which we consider now as the prized one. Why do we require his personal belongings when we had killed him and forgotten him?
In the Holy Bible, Jesus has clearly mentioned “a Prophet is not recognized in his own house and in his own country”. This is very much relevant to our country too. A country which is over three thousand kilometers away has retained and maintained Gandhiji’s personal belongings, as a mark of respect on the principles he practiced and lived. Let me ask a single political party in India who really follow what Gandhiji preached and practiced during his life time. It is a shame on our part to stop auction of his personal belongings when we have scant respect for him. We remember him once a year, i.e. 2nd October, cleaning cobwebs on his photos, giving to his statue a good bath to clean of bird droppings. The political parties visit his grave once in five years after the election, to offer him flowers and to tell him “You remain here with your Principles and we will rule with our own principles”.
If India had followed his principles and governed on that basis, India would have been a prosperous country, full of literates, lived happily irrespective of caste, religion, region. Instead of removing caste system we have multiplied them from just SC/ST to so many other divisions. That is the only greatest achievement we have achieved after his assassination. I do not know whether it is an honour to him or insult to him.
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perhaps people are more interested in buying his ideals rather than buying those artefacts which got no "utility" rather than attracting people to museum for limited period of time.
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