Referring to Jubel D'Cruz's view in his letter dated 29-9-18 regarding not to celebrate Gandhiji's October 2 birthday is quite erroneous,as the true fact is that there is a clear and purposeful point of celebrating it as a national holiday, without which Indians will not have a direction to follow his teachings that has helped them to achieve their freedom; and thereby the nation has achieved an honourable and prosperous status the are proud of.
Almost all Hindu leaders along with Gandhiji travelled to the UK and wore their traditional dress, and respected their country's culture and customs; but in this respect Saradar Patel succinctly followed Gandhiji in all respects, while Nehru remained following western culture and western attitude; and as such, he was a chain smoker holding in his mouth a cigarette holder with a lighted cigarette; consequently it is not a surprise that for many decades a large number of Indian youngsters have been following the western culture.
Today we are divided on the basis of religion, caste and inequality which are deeply rooted during the past 70 years' rule of Congress government to win votes under the pretext of anomalous reservation which is not based on means tested criteria generally.
Corruptions,crimes,killings,malnutrition etc are much more due to uncontrolled population and unlawful behaviour; and draught etc natural calamities are universal due to natural gas/oil burning, cutting of trees, land erosion etc mostly.
With the growth of economy, industrial progress,war etc the face value of currency is bound to go up and down universally; and as India is not an oil producing country, it has to pass under difficulties until its economic base is solidly founded.
Modi, the PM of India is finding ways to create jobs for youngsters and people made unemployed due to artificial intelligence,robotics and many other forms of automation in industries etc.He is also trying to bring back money illegally sent to foreign banks ,and to seek the co-operation of the banks and the respective governments.
R. N. Patel
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