Few days ago in an Indian movie I heard a Hero saying to an apparantly helpless crowd with their heads down that "ye nahi bolenge..Gandhiji ke bander hai saare". I was wondering what is the image of Gandhiji and his three symbolic Monkeys in their mind. What people of India think of them and what is the perception in young minds. No doubt Gandhiji was a staunch follower of Non-violence or Ahimsa and preach the same throughout his life. Everyone of us know personally his three monkeys and their teachings. Explicitly they follow 'bura mt dekho' 'bura mt suno' and 'bura mt bolo'. But what implicitly it implies is neglected by many. All we used to hear is about passive resistance which became passive inaction in course of time. But the real meaning in his symbolic monkeys is more than that. They actually called for active action which follows 'bura hone se roko' 'bura kehne se roko' and 'sach kehne ki himmat rakho'. He also said that he will opt for violence instead of cowardness for the sake of justice. For more than 60 years we are living with only three monkeys given by Gandhiji. Today I endeavor to add one more which says 'apne haq ke liye lado' ofcourse following Ahimsa. Let us increase the no. of this monkeys since there is lot more to do..There is lot more to change..
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