January 30, 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi by Nathuram Godse as he walked to a prayer meeting at Birla House in Delhi. On January 30, 1948, the man of peace was mowed down by the fanatic. The ideology that killed the Mahatma is very much alive and is called ‘Hindutava’. Those who follow this ideology are again trying to come to power at the Centre. Their regional messiah Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi recently won elections in the land which produced Gandhi. The Gujarat riots after the Godhra incidents showed us what fundamentalists are up to.
The best homage to the Mahatma is to relentlessly fight against all sorts of religious fundamentalists and work for secularism.
