Generally people lose their relevance by the passage of time. They do fade out of history. The reverse has happened in the case of Mahatma Gandhi. As time passes by, he is gaining in relevance.
People who are searching for sustainable solutions to the critical problems faced by humanity today and are groping in the dark for alternatives finally find light in Gandhi - be it in environmental crisis, terrorism, war, food insecurity, gender discrimination, human right violations, water scarcity, soulless consumerism or depletion of natural resources.
Why Gandhi is still relevant today?
Professor Frank Whaling, a Gandhi Scholar and fellow of The Edinburgh Inter Faith Association elucidate six reasons why Gandhi is still relevant today:
One: He was an apostle of non-violence. Gandhi stands in a line of great non-violent leaders including Tolstoy, Gandhi himself, Dr Martin Luther King, Badshah Khan,....
