Imagine if Gandhi had a gun
October 12, 2016 14:32
"A question that now stalks the mind is: what if Gandhi also had a pistol
instead of an innocuous walking staff. A less absurd counterfactual
query could be: what if Ambedkar, Gandhis political rival and iconic
leader of Dalits, had canvassed for guns to protect his campaign against
an upper-caste hegemony of the national movement?"
The Dawn's New Delhi correspondent on the politics of non-violence. Read
The Dawn's New Delhi correspondent on the politics of non-violence. Read