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CAN WE SUCCEED?

GANDHIGIRI is on fire....Thanks to latest flick "Lagey Raho Munnabhai". It claims that the Gandhian way of dealing is fruitful in today's world. Lets get away from the cineworld and step into the real world. There's a question for all of us. 'Can Gandhigiri in today's India really rock as easily as it did in the times of the British rule?' Practising Gandhian philosophy was much easier in the olden days than it is today. It was purely due to the fact that the ideas and the whole concept was novel in that era and people against whom it was practised were MORE HUMAN. In the pre-independence era, whenever Satyagraha was performed, the news reached right upto the Britian and other parts of the world. People were impressed by the short bald man leading an agitation of nation of 35crore against an empire. They wanted to know about that old man wrapped in a dhoti who had set out to change the entire way of Indian freedom st