New Delhi, Sept. 11 -- On 30th January, 1948, few minutes after 5 pm, a man was shot. Three bullets decimated his earthly life and India chose a path different from him. The nation that called him 'Bapu', the Father started shooting him repeatedly but like a courageous father who does not quit protecting his children, Mohandas Gandhi refuses to die, like a Boddhisattva who delays his liberation till all have attained it.

Their number has multiplied since and percolated even to the uninformed minds, united by hatred for all that Mahatma Gandhi stood for. Buddha pointed ignorance as a cause of sorrow and our times indeed can be defined by ignorance, ironically spread through information technology, the same tool that could have spread peac...