I read an article on Mahatma Gandhi last week and compelled to write this non-financial piece. Gandhi must be a known figure to you, they way you know Nelson Mandela or  Dr. martin Luther King, Jr.

For me, born and brought up in India, I felt Gandhi every day in our school, in prayers, in lessons and in pictures on the class room wall. I started learning Gandhi the moment I developed reading ability. The practice is still followed in Indian schools. He’s father of the nation.

This article is to reiterate the value of Gandhism. He was assassinated by religious extremists in 1948. Things didn’t change since then. We see religious extremism even today, perhaps with greater intensity. We miss Gandhi and his peace struggle. To stop Hindu-Muslim riot during partition of India (formation of Pakistan) he started hunger strike, and such was the power, millions stopped killing each other. Gandhi, we miss you today.