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Wall Street Journal- British Historian Andrew Roberts & Hagiographers..!

The Whe
el of Dhamma is Turning now!
Among the Hagiographers
Early on Gandhi was dubbed a 'mortal demi-god
'â and he has been regarded that way ever since
Ever since gandhi became gandhi, the spread of information and stories about gan
dhi was the top priority of the most wealthy and die hard hindus who comprise on
ly, merely 10% or less out of the 1.3 Billion strong population of India (but, t
he die hards also includes miserable portion of others that includes even India'
s dalits who are not followers of hinduism). Those who are on the top of the foo
d chain and power structure of India realized that they must have something to t
alk about and something to project India that will please the hindu crowd and th
e world. What started as a Hoopla gandhi became an extravagant publicity, gandhi
, the term, the name and activities became the propaganda machine for ever.
So much said and written about gandhi that it became so real, became the symbol
of India, the symbol non-violence and the symbol of Truth.........so on. The ext
raordinary propaganda machine of India and abroad kept the boisterous news pouri
ng on people like a rain storm and even the British Movie maker"stupor Dickie" c
ould not resist making a movie on gandhi. What Dickie did was a spectacular, epi
c proportion movie that would further shake up the world and place the saint gan
dhi on top of the world as a model. Albeit people like Richard Attenborough are
known for doing some home work and gather background information, fact check and
reality check, he has realized the potential of reaping revenues from this movi
e if he twists the truth further and dramatize it, how much fact is involved in
the script is a million dollar question. Did he really do research on gandhi is
also a million dollar question, leaving all those behind, if we look at the port
ray of gandhi in his movie, Dickie butchered the truth in this movie, it is no w
ay closely even resemble gandhi's real life activities. Not just the movie maker
, biographies after biographies, books after books written on gandhi by various
Indian writers, historians, academicians created an aura about gandhi. Once the
Indians became tired of writing on gandhi, the international writer's picked up
from where the hindus left and it continued unabatted and unscruplous for decad
es till today. Not a single one of the writers ever had the ability to be a scru
pulous writers or movie makers!. Or, were they part of the conspiracy too to mak
e a hagiography-cal figure out of a half naked, dull, ordinary, below average in
tellect like gandhi is unfolding in the recent past.
For the first time in my desperate search for one writer, just one honest writer
who can tell me the real story about gandhi, I nearly stumbled upon, though Amo
ng the Hegiographers no way as close to the Truth told in "gandhi behind the div
inity of mask and gandhi under cross examination by G.B.Singh. I am euphoric whe
n I read the recent wall street journal book review by Andrew Roberts, I said Th
ank You, at last I found one writer now I can listen to about gandhi. Andrew Rob
erts, a British historian writes a spectacular book review with courage, dignity
and utmost honesty that we never witnessed in this world ever since gandhi beca
me gandhi, decades after gandhi's life and death, there is so much said and done
in books, movies, novels, news papers.
WSJ:Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India
Historian Andrew Roberts appraises a new biography of Gandhi, challenging hagiog
raphic accounts of, as the book's title has it, the "Great Soul."!).
Andrew Roberts, in his quest to answer some of the most secretly kept or masked
questions on gandhi, that many would think right away it is a scam, or the hindu
s would say blasphemy, but for those truth seekers, this is a revealation, a spe
ctacular reveiw never done before on gandhi. For every argument Andrew Robert's
make, are all supported by gandhi's real life events. The Wall Street Journal ma
de choice atlast to be outrightly honest, I am not sure if they wanted to be a M
odel of the global news paper industry or it is just a fluke this time it has pu
blished such a review that would surely going to cause a mess among hindus, who
in general cannot tolerate if Turth told to them, nor would they open up their m
inds to listen to other views, in any case, the wheel of Dhamma is turning and t
he Truth about fake saint gandhi is emerging......!.
Andrew's review is a must read for one and all who wants to know the truth about
gandhi and India. Thank you Andrew for your good work.
I am going to read your recent book on The Storm of War.
Andrew Robert, a British Historian known for his talents in writing many books,
his latest popular best seller is The Storm of War...!

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