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Janurary 30, 1948, was waiting to be burnt into the memory of the generation which was then young or growing up during the freedom movement in India. The assassin who felled Mahatma
Gandhi on the evening of that fateful day was re-enacting the Crucifixion with a murderous sophistication. Even if Gandhi could say very little while he was dying within the next few
seconds his “Hey Ram” could well have meant as much as Jesus had said while pleading with God to forgive those who were killing him since they knew not what they
were doing. During the few months left for him since Indira became free in August 1947, Gandhi was striving desperately to save partitioned India bleeding from the communal fratricide with frantic
appeals for the restoration of peace and harmony. His assassin, who was driven by a mindless fury and hate, was personification of the evil which was waging at the time its
biblical war against the good to claim Gandhi as its victim. Looking back upon the dreadful event half a century later, one would be inclined to believe that Bernard Shaw’s moving
comment on the killing of Gandhi about how dangerous it was to be good still remains true. The endangered species of history ranges from Jesus to Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi, John Kennedy
and Martin Luther King, to mention just a few. A nation which was shocked and stupefied by the assassination of Gandhi was hoping that the healing touch which he had been
trying to provide to the country torn by the communal fury in the wake of Partition would restore sanity. The depressing message from the recurring communal feuds still being witnessed in
many parts of the country makes it appear that the country has to remain hoping for a long time yet. It has to be, for saving the country from the communal
Gandhi on the evening of that fateful day was re-enacting the Crucifixion with a murderous sophistication. Even if Gandhi could say very little while he was dying within the next few
seconds his “Hey Ram” could well have meant as much as Jesus had said while pleading with God to forgive those who were killing him since they knew not what they
were doing. During the few months left for him since Indira became free in August 1947, Gandhi was striving desperately to save partitioned India bleeding from the communal fratricide with frantic
appeals for the restoration of peace and harmony. His assassin, who was driven by a mindless fury and hate, was personification of the evil which was waging at the time its
biblical war against the good to claim Gandhi as its victim. Looking back upon the dreadful event half a century later, one would be inclined to believe that Bernard Shaw’s moving
comment on the killing of Gandhi about how dangerous it was to be good still remains true. The endangered species of history ranges from Jesus to Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi, John Kennedy
and Martin Luther King, to mention just a few. A nation which was shocked and stupefied by the assassination of Gandhi was hoping that the healing touch which he had been
trying to provide to the country torn by the communal fury in the wake of Partition would restore sanity. The depressing message from the recurring communal feuds still being witnessed in
many parts of the country makes it appear that the country has to remain hoping for a long time yet. It has to be, for saving the country from the communal
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