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After 75 years, India’s Freedom is Gandhi’s Great Legacy
As India celebrates a momentous anniversary, the digital era is making it easier to apply Gandhi’s prescriptions to heal a broken world — and shape a future that works for everyone.
Most Indians were born after Apple introduced the first desktop computer in 1980.
Yet the life they live today, the dreams they pursue, the society they shape, flows from the remarkable independence struggle led by M.K. Gandhi: using the power of truth to humble an Empire.
For most Indians, Gandhi is an icon: a picture on a currency note, a portrait in a government office. Those with living memory of independence grow fewer every year. For Indians born into the digital age, it is difficult to conceive the struggles and the sacrifice that went into the making of the Indian nation.
As India joyously celebrates 75 years of independence on August 15, it is worth recalling how Gandhi led India’s quest for freedom. and how those values, principles, and learnings can be invoked today as we set out to heal a broken world.
Gandhi faced down imperial and colonial might with three moral weapons:
satyagraha (literally adherence to truth; more philosophically…
