The US president Barack Obama is a declared fan of Mahatma Gandhi and practitioner of non-violence. But I was surprised to read this piece of news where a teen-age has been banned from entering the USA, as a punishment for sending an abusive email to the President!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-11296303 (14 Sep 2010)
In the true spirits of Gandhism he should have remembered that “Hatred can’t be won by hatred.” Or in the spirits of what we popularly call Gandhigiri now a day thanks to the Munnabhai series of Bollywood movies, he should have called the boy to the White House and give him a warm hug (jadu ki jhapki). That is what would have healed the boy and would have made Obama great in the eyes of the masses. That would have been a far better message to the humanity too, sending ‘hope’ to the world that we can win over hatred by love. I wish he would have done something as peaceful and non-violent as that.
- Rahul
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