The Mahatma’s experiments with truth formed a backdrop, when in the path I have trodden…many students have learnt and flown away to other lands; a number of research papers have seen the world; and numerable hours of teaching gave music to the long haul. But when…I had to get power supply for the house that my wife and me built; I see colleges and universities becoming ways of making money delivering worthless degrees in trendy subjects; I visited the jail because my friend has been arrested for being a teacher striking against the government; I find mega dams grow and drown hapless multitudes; I notice people buy the wares of the company that killed thousands in Bhopal and got away scot free; I find votes being cast to elect parasites that suck us; I watch a country like the US butcher their way through Afghanistan and Iraq to get at the oil…Into this kaleidoscope of corruption, repression and moral ineptitude, when authorities exist only for those who wield power and money, Mahatma Gandhi and the words he uttered in a different context “In my opinion non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good” become more relevant to me.
“In my opinion non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good” 1921-1930.
