Former West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi said on Saturday that the West Asian war has reached India’s “doorsteps and kitchens”, noting that the far-flung conflict has led to police guarding LPG cylinder sites in India.
“The bombs fell there and moved from there to a nearby place,” Gandhi said in a panel discussion about his revolution. “But can you imagine the war that is happening there that leads us, here today in India, to have police guarding the pillars of LPG cylinders?” India and its future: essays.
The discussion, which was held at the India International Center in New Delhi, was attended by Gandhi, Tamil Nadu MP Kamal Haasan, and Kerala MP John Brittas, and the session was moderated by Mrinal Pandey, former president of Prasar Bharati.
Haasan presented the first copy of the book to historian and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s wife, Gurcharan Kaur, to mark the occasion. “It is a great honor to present this book to Ms. Gursharan Kaur. Madam, Dr. Manmohan Singh has been a personal inspiration to me,” Haasan said.
During the event, the former governor said he was often asked what his grandfather, Mahatma Gandhi, thought about the ongoing conflict. Gopalkrishna Gandhi said: “Let us not ask what he would do today apart from the fact that he was in his sixties. Let us also remember that he expects us to do what we should according to our intelligence.”
Further discussions ranged on many issues related to the issues covered in the former IAS official’s book – from the relationship between the Union and state governments to long-standing global trade relations in Kerala. Britas, in response to a question about propaganda films, touched on the controversial matter The story of Kerala: “It is practically demonizing a section of the population, demonizing the state, and abusing Malayalis. There is not even a premise of truth in the plot of this film.” He also added that the film “hates to be pigeonholed under the name of a movie.”
