India, under Narendra Modi, has descended to its lowliest lows. The civilization of hundreds, nay, thousands of years, has been torn to shreds.

The villain of the peace is Modi, an example of human baseness at its zenith. Maha— (a prefix) in Sanskrit means ‘great’, and Aatma means ‘soul’; together the word is Mahatma.

Rabindranath Tagore, the poet, philosopher, and Nobel laureate in a letter to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in 1915 wrote, ‘To the one whom India’s millions call Mahatma — to him my grateful full homage.’ Gandhi was reluctant to accept this honorific title but acquiesced, saying that it meant a reminder to him to serve others.

He became an icon of peace and non-violence. From the Mahatma the descent is to the evil headed nincompoop, called Modi. He is a dishonourable antonym for the honorific tittle of Mahatma.

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree (an Ethiopian proverb). The Mahatma (M.K. Gandhi) in his Non-Violence in Peace and War had said in 1948: “Must I do all the evil I can before I learnt to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.” Modi, an answer to the Indians and to your own soul, in case it is still alive.

Only when evil increases, does its potential to harm strike the eye. It appears that Stephen Vincent Benet in “John Brown’s Body” is actually describing Modi, the evil, when he says, “Some men wish evil and accomplish it, but most men, when they work in that machine; just let it happen somewhere in the wheels; the fault is no decisive, villainous knife, But the dull saw that is the routine mind”. honi soit qui mal y pense (shame on him who thinks evil of it). An evil man sees not the same tree as a wise man sees.

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