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Gandhiji was a "very violent man," claims actor Tom Alter | Bollywood actor and theatre personality Tom Alter has said that Mahatma Gandhi was a "very violent man," but only in thoughts. Alter said this during
a function in Ahmedabad wherein he and danseuse Mrinalini Sarabhai read out the
letters exchanged between Mahatma Gandhi and freedom fighter Sarojini Naidu during
the era of India's freedom struggle. The letters tell the tale of a freedom struggle
and a deep probing relationship between the two. The script of the 15-minute performance
was adapted from the book "The Mahatma and the Poetess" compiled by ES Reddy and
edited by Sarabhai. "He (Gandhi) believed in non-violence because he himself was
a very violent person. If he had not been violent, then he would not have believed
in non-violence so much. Had he been non-violent by birth, then there would have
been no need for him to convince (himself) again and again. He was violent by
thoughts. Then, he said our thoughts should be non-violent, and if our thoughts
are non-violent then only our actions would be non-violent too," said Alter. |
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