On Gandhi Jayanti every year, it has been a tradition to ask: Is he relevant today? His lessons of truth and non-violence sound sagely, other-worldly. His method, Satyagraha, seems impractical at best. For the sake of progress, development and order, a little bit of brute force, some economy of truth is indispensable, it is argued. His world was different, and his approach won’t work today.

But in the long history of humanity, a century has not drastically changed the ways of the world. In attempting to do what is required for peaceful co-existence, he also met many challenges in his time. And the problems he faced are as age-old as the means he devised to solve them. Gandhi is, if anything, more relevant for today’s strife-torn world than in the world back then.

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