Comments on: More Gandhi, more Kamal http://www.allthingskamal.info/blog/2008/01/30/more-gandhi-more-kamal/ The Kamal Haasan Blog Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:33:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: HAL http://www.allthingskamal.info/blog/2008/01/30/more-gandhi-more-kamal/#comment-2281 HAL Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:56:01 +0000 http://www.allthingskamal.info/blog/2008/01/30/more-gandhi-more-kamal/#comment-2281 <i>Ahimsa is a rather intricate idiom. It is akin to what you would term as Nirvana. Both are quite close or perchance inter-related. Ahimsa is as complex as integrity to put into practice. Nonetheless, just because it is becoming more and more difficult to practice, you cannot decry wisdom. You can probably modify it. I am sure I will come under flak from various quarters. But then it is a sort of fate that even wiser people had to face, like Mr Gandhi himself. He said something because he had the audacity and the honesty and the integrity to publicly accept and contradicts his deeds, criticise his mistakes, change track and say ‘I am sorry’ in public. I think that is what I admire by the gentleman.</i> Whenever Mr.Haasan wants to write a book, I order a bilingual, English and Tamil! I'll buy both! Ahimsa is a rather intricate idiom. It is akin to what you would term as Nirvana. Both are quite close or perchance inter-related. Ahimsa is as complex as integrity to put into practice. Nonetheless, just because it is becoming more and more difficult to practice, you cannot decry wisdom. You can probably modify it. I am sure I will come under flak from various quarters. But then it is a sort of fate that even wiser people had to face, like Mr Gandhi himself. He said something because he had the audacity and the honesty and the integrity to publicly accept and contradicts his deeds, criticise his mistakes, change track and say ‘I am sorry’ in public. I think that is what I admire by the gentleman.

Whenever Mr.Haasan wants to write a book, I order a bilingual, English and Tamil! I’ll buy both!

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