Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy is a model of nonviolence and experimentation, offering timeless lessons on harmony, empathy, and navigating global challenges of inequality and violence.

People who fell out of defined normalcy of age – normalcy kept changing—criminal (intent) or mentally ill (involuntary) . Though abnormal behaviour in old times was relegated to astrology or ghosts.

The fiddlers should also keep their eyes open because power deludes and absolute power deludes absolutely

All it takes is a virus that has created a cloud of uncertainty, the goals have disappeared and life has boiled down to survival. Enlightenment, if it means anything, is not the sudden light of a thousand suns, but the dark crevices in our minds filled with fear.

Every century has seen tsunamis and calamities, but man-made disasters are a phenomenon of modern life and it is suicidal. The genie is out of the bag! Can we go back to a simpler life?

MK Gandhi’s posters are everywhere in these turbulent, agitated times – in an India that seems more divided than 1947 – but are we worthy of him?