Hi to all,

My maiden post and i appropriately select for discussion our 'Father of the Nation'...

Yesterday being 2nd Oct'08, the 139th birth centenary of 'Mahatma Gandhi' and i had the opportunity to watch the movie 'Gandhi' on television.

Going back on nostalgia...way back to 1983, period which we shifted to a new town bcz my father got promotion with transfer, me being a teenager, saw two, just released, film posters - one, Mr.Kamal Hassan's 'Salangai Oli' and the other 'Gandhi' in english.

Being a Kamal fan, my heart wanted to see that film first but may be - my father holds 'Mahatma' in awe and respect - this fact must have influenced me to watch 'Gandhi' first.

At that age, I was awestruck and almost after 25 long years, yesterday i felt the same. May be i struggled to hold tears now...

...for i feel that it is unrealistic, non-practical and impossible for a human being to live so...when viewed from yesteryear,today, tomorrow's perspective...but to the benefit of human race, the great man had actually lived so...

The words of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru "the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light..and a thousand years later that light will still be seen and the world will see it"

I shall reiterate the fact that we and our generations to come, shall try atleast to understand the 'Mahatma' for our..our nation's..our human races betterment and this stands true given the happenings of today, around the globe.

I shall sign off by registering 'Mahatma's' words and i conscienciously try to follow since 1983...
"I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed,
I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible,
But, I refuse to be blown off my feet by any".