Man Who Brought Darkness

Fleeting look at the 10 rupees currency bill which was parting my wallet , a thought dawned upon me,apart from the obvious one of "dysphoric loss of 10 bucks" ,i saw Gandhiji looking west , in a flash date came to my mind which usually eludes me in the examination hall ,where either neighbor or watch comes to the rescue,latter when you remember to wear one.  :-))..
Coming back,i got hold of the day,it was 30th Jan ,day  when "Light went of our lives" according to Jawaharlal Nehru ,day when Gandhiji were shot point blank.I paid my reverence in solitude.And then my thoughts wandered ,who shot him??? Nathuram Godse.Why??? and Why prevailed till google came to my rescue.Why i din't know this man,was it my own ignorance or ignorance of our society on whole,we talk less about the man who assassinated Father of Our Nation.I wanted to learn about his "PSYCHE" which i did.He was a stoic hindu ,learned man and a social acivist.He took pride in his religion which taught him to respect other religions,help fellowbeings,fight against the social injustices like dowry.He was the editor of a Marathi newspaper - Hindu Rashtra and a well-known member of the Hindu Mahasabha. Clean-cut, sober, intelligent, the thirty-seven-year-old bachelor hardly seemed a candidate for the role of assassin. From time to time he had written scathing editorials denouncing Gandhi and the Congress party, though acquaintances could not recall an occassion when he had spoken bitterly against the Mahatma. He had no personal hatred of Gandhi. Godse even stated in his trial, 'Before I fired the shots I actually wished him well and bowed to him in reverence'. More i read more curious I became for why he did it then,and then i read his speech he gave on nov 8,1948 during the trial at Red fort.He was not sorry,had respect for gandhiji but had hs own reasons for his diabolic act.Quite an eye opener his views were that made me think about the other side of the coin....
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