Rumi Nations

I was wondering what would a Gandhi do if he were born in the India of today … If the country that he was born in were not under British rule, what would he do? May be, grow up to become a lawyer as he had done originally and become a practicing lawyer — may be in the Supreme Court — and make money … Or, would be notice the inequities existing in society and find them incomprehensible and intolerable and seek to remove them? May be, he would notice the glaring differences in living standards: such as people traveling in cars and simultaneously people begging. But then socialistic notions of distributing wealth amongst everyone in an equitable manner probably doesn’t work: as has been shown by the failures of socialism/communism in Russia or China. The Soviet Union of course imploded while China’s leaders were smart enough to recognize the imminent failure and decided that “a cat has to be able to catch mice whether it’s black or white.” Another thought is this: what if Gandhi were to r...