Gandhi in the 21st Century

“Is Gandhi relevant today?” is a question that is often asked among the educated Indians. One needs to look around at the phenomena that is all around us today to understand where the relevance is being felt the most, the three big phenomena that are having the greatest impact today in our midst are,

(a) climate change and its consequent global warming,

(b) global rise of inequality and its consequent divisive and violent narratives and

(c) the indiscriminate and intrusive use of technology and its destruction of the value of human life and the emergence of (what is known as) the ‘post-truth’ world.