Imagine, if you did any or all of this:
1. Truly experimented by reading Mahatma Gandhi’s book ‘My Experiments with Truth’ with a fresh and empty mind at 4:30 am in the morning (okay, call it night time!).
2. Watched Richard Attenborough’s historical saga ‘Gandhi’ and Rajkumar Hirani’s comic caper ‘Lage Raho Munnabhai’ back to back, and at times wondered whether to cry or to laugh, but still cried.
3. Chanted Mahatma Gandhi’s favorite mantra ‘RAM RAM’ throughout the day, even if it was the only time you would say this in your entire life, unless you are a hardware engineer who deals in RAM & ROM.
4. Showed your cute school photograph to your mother (and secretly to your girlfriend), with you dressed as a ‘perfectly imperfect’ Mahatma Gandhi lookalike in a fancy dress competition. And got a big kiss from either of them!
5. Freely distributed Mahatma Gandhi photos, especially those printed on 1000 and 500 rupee notes.
6. Aped ‘Father of the Nation’ Mahatma Gandhi’s ‘fast’ route when your father curbed your freedom to watch TV! And won, primarily due to your mother’s ‘Lean & Hungry Son/Daughter’ plea PLUS the mighty ‘No-Cooperation’ notice to your father.
7. Roared Mahatma Gandhi’s slogan ‘DO or DIE’ with your friends of ‘Cricket Congress’ every time India did not score a run on a ball in their eliminator cricket match.
8. Had the cheek to say ‘Sample this cheek too, please!’ when someone teasingly pulled one of your cheeks.
9. Very deeply pondered during bedtime what if Mahatma Gandhi were still alive! Dreamt of beating Mahatma Gandhi in a national brisk walk competition…Woke up and asked yourself ‘What are the chances that Mahatma Gandhi was reborn, and he were ‘YOU’ (who knows)?
Can’t imagine that you would have done any of these?
If you did, tell me which one was close enough to what you did. If you did something even more Unimaginable, tell me quick…’Mr. and Ms. Gandhigiri’ titles await deserving people.
VENKATESH 