How do you feel about "Mahatma" Ghandi?

@Noflaps said in #1:

> "Gandhi's arrest lasted two years, as he was held in the Aga Khan Palace in Pune.... Gandhi was released before the end of the war on 6 May 1944 because of his failing health and necessary surgery...."
You offer no information. Did he kill some one? Did he cheat on taxes?
> I would never have confined Ghandi, if it were up to me, and it does not diminish him in the slightest, in my eyes. But what do you think about that? Should I think differently? Does reading of his purported arrest and confinement change your mind about him?
Why do you talk about diminish?
Depends on what crime people is convicted off, does it not.

No, @NaturalBornTraveller , Gandhi's arrest and detention did not diminish Gandhi in my eyes to the slightest degree.

After all, he tried to help his country but was a thorn in the side of the then-current establishment. So, I would not have found his arrest and detention to be terribly surprising, either. As to the actual charges? I don't know. In retrospect, do you think they were actually important? I guess they were thought by those who arrested him to be sufficiently serious.

History suggests that it is risky to disagree effectively with the entrenched and powerful. It takes courage and conviction. But I assume that there were many who nevertheless thought Gandhi's arrest was a great idea. I hope and believe that I would have seen things clearly enough back then, and not just been following the crowd, and would not have cheered and celebrated Gandhi's arrest and detention by those who disagreed with him and found him to be a thorn.

But I can't know that for sure, I guess. We are all influenced by our peers and others to whom we habitually listen. Perhaps I would not have understood what was going on back then and thought Gandhi's incarceration was a good thing. I hope not. It would have proved embarrassing in retrospect,

@Passionate_Player said in #7:
> If I was an Indian in 1942 I would be an outright supporter of Gandhi.
wont we all

@Noflaps said in #12:
> No, @NaturalBornTraveller , Ghandi's arrest and detention did not diminish Ghandi in my eyes to the slightest degree.
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> After all, he tried to help his country but was a thorn in the side of the then-current establishment. So, I would not have found his arrest and detention to be terribly surprising, either.
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> History suggests that it is risky to disagree effectively with the entrenched and powerful. It takes courage and conviction. But I assume that there were many who nevertheless thought Ghandi's arrest was a great idea. I hope that I would have seen things clearly enough back then, and not just been following the crowd, and would not have cheered and celebrated Ghandi's arrest and detention by those who disagreed with him and found him to be a thorn.
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> But who knows. We are all influenced by our peers and others to whom we habitually listen. Perhaps I would not have understood what was going on back then and thought Ghandi's incarceration was a good thing. I hope not. It would have proved embarrassing in retrospect,
erm its Gandhi...

Thank you for correcting me, @BKrivi09 ! Great job.

I seem to forget how to spell "Gandhi" repeatedly. I've been corrected in the past, more than once. And I needed correction yet again and am grateful that you provided it.

Here's what the internet told me, when I just checked again to make sure:

"Ghandi is a common misspelling of Gandhi. The correct spelling is Gandhi, with an “h” after the “d.” The name Gandhi means “grocer” in Gujarati, a language spoken in the western region of India."

The man deserved to have his name spelled correctly. And I will try, yet again, to cement the proper spelling in my mind. Who knows if I will succeed long term....

For some reason, I have an easier time remembering math and car engine cylinder displacements than peoples' names and their correct spelling.

I went back and corrected the spelling in my most recent post -- but, unfortunately, I can't correct the spelling in the title of the whole thread. When I was correcting the spelling in that previous post, I also noticed that I should try to respond to @NaturalBorTraveller's question about the "charges" more clearly, too, and decided to try to improve the post a bit.

Oh, drat. Perfection is something to which I can never realistically aspire.

@Noflaps
Gandhis arrest on March 10 1922 was for sedition against the British colonial government and he was sentenced to 6 years.

Thanks, @Dukedog. So the authorities found him to be a threat to the status quo and jailed him? I don't recall that he was ever truly threatening or violent, though.

To the contrary, I think he asked those who listened to him to act peacefully. The internet quotes him as saying, for example, "We should meet abuse by forbearance."

I think he refused to eat for a time, though, which I guess may have been a bit threatening to his own health.

I remember his brother with fondness...Our local cloakroom attendant...Mahat Macoat....Also, his cousin...Goosey,Goosey Ghandi.

Looking at events from the past from our modern knowledge and perspective gives one a false sense of our own capabilities/morals.

If I were alive 2-3 centuries ago I would be the worlds greatest inventor.

Assuming it was me as I am now and not someone raised in that environment.

He has done many bad things too for example sleeping with woman or calling african people bad things and also agreed with the british about the african enslavement