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> His life holds valuable lessons for everyone. Completely agree with this. All of his life holds valuable lessons for everyone. The good and the bad. I don't

• valarauko 7y ago
  >I don't think it's healthy to treat someone's bad sides as forbidden topics that should not be discussed because the good sides need to be preserved. Except this doesn't happen in isolation. Every has their own agenda and bias. For example with Gandhi, his fiercest critics are among the Right Wing Hindu Supremacists, who see Gandhi as a traitor to his people. They blame Gandhi for allowing the Partition to happen, and agitating to give Pakistan a fair share of resources. They blame him for the death of Bhagat Singh and the other militant nationalists. The criticisms go on. In India, you will rarely find the sort of fair discussion about historic personalities. People strongly identify with these heroes, and to cast any aspersions is tantamount to insulting their cultural identity. Try and have a balanced discussion about Ambedkar, and you'll find yourself in jail for a hatecrime.