The Unwalked Path: Gandhi, A Prisoner of Hope, and the Echo of Golgotha
Today, as the world pauses to mark the birth anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, many will speak of non-violence, truth, and satyagraha. They will rightfully laud his towering achievements in liberating a subcontinent. But before I proceed, a clarification is essential, for my relationship with Gandhi's legacy is one of profound conflict. Those who follow my writings can always find an unapologetic stance against many of his core convictions. I speak of his deeply flawed understanding of the caste system—a belief in the purification of the varna hierarchy, which stood in stark, unforgivable contrast to the clarion call of the one man who truly understood its evil: Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, who demanded its complete annihilation. I speak also of Gandhi's revivalist optimism for a reformed Hinduism, a vision I find untenable. In that regard, my absolute and final resort is always, as Arundhati Roy so aptly put it, the Doctor. For me, the radical, structural wisdom of ...
