In your opinion, do you think Gandhi has
failed in his life’s work which is to promote nonviolence reuniting the people
of India?
In my opinion, I think Gandhi has not
failed in his life’s work which is to promote nonviolence reuniting the people
of India. He used nonviolence ways in order to get India become independence
country. For example in the movie ‘Gandhi’, although he had been beaten by the
British for not to burn the passes, he still doing it until he can. He also the
one who persuade the citizen in the country that they have to monopoly the salt
at the beach and can get it free rather than they need to buy the exported salt
from British. He always reminded his people for not using violence in order to
get the independence because he wanted British itself to give the independence.
Although he had been a prisoner for a few times, he still has the courage to
fight for the independence. He had fight for independence until his last
breath.
Do you think Gandhi is responsible for the
tragic end of his oldest son, Harilal?
In my opinion, I think that Gandhi is not
the one who responsible for the tragic end of his oldest son, Harilal. I said
so because everything was started from Harilal himself. First, about his
marriage with Gulab. Actually Gandhi was not agree when Harilal said that he
wanted to marry early. He thought that
Harilal could be his assistant at Ashram but after been persuaded by his wife,
then, he gave his permission to Harilal. After that, Harilal family became
larger as they got 4 children. Then, Gulab died after his daughter, Shanti died
because of cholera. He became suffer in his life when he cannot accept the
truth about the death of his wife. Second, the tragic moment in Harilal’s life
happened when Harilal didn’t got the job that he wanted the most which was he
wanted to become like his father, a barrister. He thought that his father was
the one that could be blamed about his education.