That we are all messed up. The lie is, The assumed perfection. The irony is, Messed up people demanding others to not be messed up. It's 2nd October, the birthday of India's father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi. More than being a political genius, Gandhi was a prolific writer and a spiritualist. He begins his autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth by writing that everything in his life has been pursued with one goal: self-realisation. As a writer, he has left such a large body of work that historians spend their entire lives reading and diving deeper into Gandhi and still find it difficult to unravel the layers of complexity that surrounds Gandhi. While differing opinions about him exist and he had his own sets of flaws, there's something all of us writers can learn from him—to be a crusader of truth. Whatever uncomfortable truths we know about Gandhi, it's because he himself told us that. He didn't shy away by concealing any secrets. He wrote them all. In today's world filled with fake news and violence, Gandhi is all the more relevant. Truth is not only a spiritual or political tool but also, the most important creative tool. A truthful write-up percolates right into the heart. Today as we remember Gandhi, let us define what truth means for us. #truthis
