Showing posts with label Gandhi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gandhi. Show all posts

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Bapu Gandhi and Baba Gandhi

The name Gandhi may seem very familiar but there is so much to 
distinguish the Bapu from the Baba.

Bapu Gandhi:

·         The pivot in the Independence Movement.
·         The architect of Non-Violence movement.
·         Simple-living and high-thinking.
·         Fast for days to get the demand for the country.
·         Turning the Charkha to make Khadi.
·         No foreign trips for pleasure sake.
·         Sacrifice in terms of sharing, giving and country’s benefit.
·         Simple loins cloth to drape self.
·         And above all no intention of grabbing power and sit as the head.
·         All the moods captured in pictures read the body language as a man without pride.

Baba Gandhi:

·         Dimple faced smile to capture certain mass.
·         A position simply cut out for him with no pain but gain.
·         Holidays on foreign soil for a change.
·         Fasting for the country – a distant dream.
·         Still not carved out a special deed or intention to be tagged with.
·         Modernity in company of friends and show simplicity in public – dubious.
·         Still a learner with no specific goals of his own.
·         What does sacrifice mean? Still has to learn.
·         Not self-made but inherited fame and name.

·         Wait for photo opportunities where the body language tells his show-off nature depicting on his face.