When the country is celebrating Azadi’s Amrit Mahotsav, one should not see the “ zahar” (poison) of communal hatred spreading, former West Bengal Governor and diplomat Gopalkrishna Gandhi said on Friday,
Mr. Gandhi made the remarks while delivering a lecture in the memory of H.Y. Sharada Prasad, who had served as the information advisor to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The theme of the lecture was “Prisoner Number 8677: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s years in Yeravada Jail between 1922 and 1924”.
Mr. Gandhi said that one of the important inferences from the Mahatma’s multiple prison terms is how he strived to achieve Hindu-Muslim unity. “He succeeded partially but poignantly, laying down his life in the process,” he said, adding that the sense of co-existence has been ruptured, distrust is now endemic, and there is chronic disinformation.
