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In this video I give an introduction to who Mahatma Gandhi was and explain why we revere him and call him great. Gandhi knew the power of symbolism and social media. During Gandhis life time many inventions were made that brought the world together including wide scale newspapers, radio, and tv. Gandhi new how to masterfully use these mediums to galvanize support for his movement by highlighting the depravity and despotism of British colonialism. Swaraj or self reliance, Hindi Muslim unity, and the end to untouchability were priorities for Gandhi and in many ways we misunderstand why Gandhi was so hell bent on creating the ethos and atmosphere for such progressives ideas. 

In a country so wrought with division, inequality, poverty, and destitution yet brimming with diversity and luminaries of the independence movement Gandhi along with Ambedkar and others sought to create an India where fraternity would bring together a new era of international solidarity. The era of industrialization calls for the better angels of mankind through the creation of a middle class that was the driving force educationally, intellectually and spiritually to move the nation of India and awaken the sleeping giant from its slumber. 

Gandhi was in active correspondence with this burgeoning middle class which was not only the vital force for organizing power, but also shaped Gandhi into the intellectual and global citizen that he was. He was indeed an oddity at face value. He melded the Western intellectualism of a lawyer, the global awareness of different religious traditions through his many idols and contemporaries, and the rural wisdom of Indian self reliance into a man who along with Dr. B.R Ambedkar were truly the conscience of mankind.

I am sorry to say that India needs men like them or at least the spirit of these men more than ever so as to break the rock hard and callous heart of india and open the door to not only true social reform but also true saint hood so as to transform the continent of India so every men, women, and child can walk on the path to righteousness.