tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21354739.post1313319176798774827..comments2023-11-03T09:08:17.616-04:00Comments on New Heritage Cooking: World Farm Animals DayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21354739.post-53819896341497232002007-10-02T16:20:00.000-04:002007-10-02T16:20:00.000-04:00Thank you for your post for remembering and commem...Thank you for your post for remembering and commemorating Gandhiji. But I did want to point out a few inconsistencies about your post. <BR/><BR/>Please do not limit Gandhiji to Hindus. India is not a Hindu nation. We are a secular country. Gandhi Jayanti is not celebrated only by Hindus. Ganchiji was the Father of our Nation. All of India (Indians and not just Hindus) celebrate Gandhi Jayanti. We have the second largest Muslim population (second to Indonesia). We were the only country to have welcomed oppressed Parsis (Iranian/Farsis who ran away from oppression hundreds of years ago), We have Jews, Christians amongst our midst. Along with Hinduism, we are also the birthplace of Buddhism, Jainism. <BR/><BR/>Gandhiji helped India become a free country from Britain. He wiped out Britain's claim to fame of being a 'cultured' and 'civilised' nation when he showed the international press and the world in turn, the brutalities of Jalianwalabaug massacre. He helped established Indian freedom struggle as a non-violent peaceful struggle for freedom. <BR/><BR/>Yes he did pick up many of his traits from Hinduism, but he was a well read man. If you read more about him, you will realise he incorporated many principles into our freedom struggle from Christ, Thoreau, American independence struggle (Just as Americans boycotted tea and cloth from Britain, Indians boycotted cloth from Britain - Swadeshi (Buy Local/National) movement).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com