GANDHI

It may not be a right time, much less day, to discuss the lapses that mar the history in which Mahatma Gandhi is considered an icon. But things have begun to manifest, to be realised without any specific mention. 
It is one thing to be a saint, but there is another human quality, characterised by another nomenclature, 'seer', Rishi being its hindi equivalent .
A saint may not be a seer, so also a seer may not be a saint.
It is a seer, a visionary , whom history would recognise as an epoch making personality, Yug Purush. Sri Krishna was, bhismpitamah was not despite all the attributes which a Yug Purush would qualify. 
The idea of reading a literature or history or mythology should be to develop discerning power, to objectively judge who is what. Rating a Gandhi or a Nehru or a .....  might seem a berating act, but even then it is expedient, so that the present generation and the one in the offing is not in confusion, that confusion which our and the preceding generation has been, on a variety of issues.