And they are accusing me of wrongly calling you a messiah! You are already a messiah, Ms Roy! Declared and accepted by many, all those who actually matter in this country. It is not for nothing that national magazines provide you so much space on issues they care two hoots about. What is it if not the ardent belief of your followers on your miraculous power to make people read something that they have avoided their whole lives? And like what happens with every messiahs, you already have very cunning followers who are quoting your messiah status for their private gains, cheating gullible masses who believe in your messiah-ness. I am merely resisting your messiah status now being thrust on us. Just for the simple reason that it is more difficult to dislodge a messiah, a mahatma, than to create one. We spent some seven decades and enormous efforts in dislodging one, thrust on us quite forcefully, by others who also were as persuasive as you are today in claiming that it was only in our best interests. But the truth was, as Babasaheb put it so poignantly in his discussion with Gandhi in 1931 history tells that mahatmas like, fleeting phantoms, raise dust but raise no level. However, I am fighting a losing battle actually. It has already been won by others.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:49:35 +0000
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