Revisiting The Conspiracy Behind the Assassination of M K Gandhi

By Sumit Paul, New Age Islam 29 January 2024 Every year on January 30, M K Gandhi's martyrdom is remembered across the globe with a sense of universal reverence. Though a Hindu fanatic and independent India's first terrorist's bullets truncated the life of a 78-yr-old weak individual, the voice of Truth and Non-violence hasn't lost its relevance. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ------ In fact, Gandhian non-violence has become a universal philosophy to be followed by all sane people. Way back in 1960, the English editor of The Statesman, Calcutta, wrote an essay on Gandhi and analysed the psyche of all those people who were involved in Gandhi's assassination. By the way, The Statesman had a British editor till 1967. I cannot recall the name of the editor who wrote on Gandhi's killers and concluded that all those who conspired to kill Gandhi were actually very average individuals with a pretty low IQ, barring V D Savarkar, who had no understanding of the loftiness of Gandhian non-violence and greatness of Gandhi as an individual. They killed Gandhi to give a modicum of 'fame' to their own wretched existence. They all had a common grievance: Gandhi's perceived appeasement of Muslims. Remember, lowly humans are always violent by nature and they're vindictive. The individuals who killed Gandhi were so casual that they had no knowledge of the gravity and enormity of their heinous crime. N D Apte, who was hanged with Godse, was with his young girlfriend at a lodge in Bombay just after three days of assassinating the Father of Nation! Nathuram Godse was a sissy who killed to prove that he was man enough to kill someone! Apart from vague political and ideological reasons, there were powerful psychological reasons and angles to it. Clen Feter of The Spectator, London opined that it was a group of sexually confused, rather deranged, individuals for whom killing such a huge personality was a sign and symbol of masculinity. This cannot be totally pooh-poohed. Fraser and Knott observed in their book, 'Psychology of Sexually Abused Men' (1970), that the killers of famous men have often been sexually befuddled humans, whether it was James Earl Ray who killed Dr Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968 at Memphis or Nathuram Godse. James Earl Ray was sexually abused by his two uncles. Savarkar was sodomised by two Muslim warders at Cellular Jail in Andaman. He himself mentioned this and that was the reason he was full of hatred for Muslims. Anand Ramayya's documentary 'Who killed Gandhi' (2013) categorically mentions this fact. Nathuram Godse and N D Apte were sexually exploited by a (Hindu) leader. Sexploitation of humans, esp. of males, leads to seething anger and sudden violent behaviour. The man who killed John Lennon in 1980, was sexually obsessed with the legendary songwriter. Madanlal Pahwa, one of the conspirators, brutally raped and killed 2 Muslim women in the mayhem of Partition. All those wastrels had no lofty ideological basis. They were united for their common antipathy for Muslims and also to de-stigmatise themselves of their nagging sexual selves. In fact, Gandhi's assassination was modern India's earliest attempt to demoralise Muslims. Those fools who try to find relevance in this dastardly act should realise that the greatness of Gandhi cannot be dwarfed by fanatic criminals with no proper and particular aim in life. Today's generation, weaned on WhatsApp wisdom, cannot fathom the greatness of Gandhi. Gandhian non-violence must be taught at all schools, colleges and varsities so that we can have morally strong and ideologically exalted humans. Ironically, while the whole world deifies Gandhi and demonises Godse, the reverse is obvious in India. ---- A regular columnist for New Age Islam, Sumit Paul is a researcher in comparative religions, with special reference to Islam. He has contributed articles to the world's premier publications in several languages including Persian. URL: https://newageislam.com/spiritual-meditations/conspiracy-assassination-m-k-gandhi/d/131613 New Age Islam, Islam Online, Islamic Website, African Muslim News, Arab World News, South Asia News, Indian Muslim News, World Muslim News, Women in Islam, Islamic Feminism, Arab Women, Women In Arab, Islamophobia in America, Muslim Women in West, Islam Women and Feminism