Gandhi My Father Page #7

Every one of you, from this moment onwards, .

...must should consider yourself free, a free man or free woman

Act as if you are free...

...and no longer under the heel of foreign domination

This is an open rebellion

Leave India to God

Or to anarchy

But quit India

Do or die

We shall do or die

Independence was the subject of post war talks...

Britan must hold India at all costs.

Nationwide demonstrations lead to violent consequences.

Prominent leaders of the

...freedom movement are arrested.

Mahatma Gandhi was put under house arrest...

...in a palatial mansion in Pune called the Agarcon Palace.

How big is our country?

Why? - You don't know?

You keep taking my tests, now you tell me, how big?

Very big

What is big?

You remember, in our geography class...

...I showed you the globe of the world

And I also showed you Europe

So take Europe, add a few other countries. It's that big

And how many British are there in our country?

Three hundred thousand, add a few thousands

Then why do you want them to quit India?

Such a big country, we can all live here like a big family

I want them to quit as our rulers...

...Once they stop ruling us, we have no quarrel with them

Good point, you must tell them this

I will

Now I cannot take long walks, I get tired

You go alone from tomorrow

Hari.

Hari.

Where have you been, son?

Ba, I wanted to come here to meet you, but they wouldn't allow me

Who, who is stopping you?

Just because he is poor?

They allow all my children, he is also my son

Come here, son

No Ba, I will sit here

Come here, come. I won't let you go anywhere

You're staying with me, you aren't going anywhere else

Come to me, son

You are drunk?

You come drunk to meet me?

I have come to see you, Ba

No liquor... - Bapu, he has been drinking!

You have no shame?

I came to see you.

I came to see you. - You go away!

Go now

Take him away

Take him away, Hari, just go away

I'm not drunk. - Leave, Hari

Mr. Gandhi.

The Pakistan issue is very sensitive.

And we cannot allow your public statements...

...issued...uncensored.

I believe it is my duty and my responsibility.

To make Mr. Jinah and the others...

...see the dangers of an India...

...being divided into two parts.

Fighting against each others.

I've to follow orders.

Well, it suits your government...

...to keep us divided...

...on the basis of religion.

Unfortunately, we're so blind...

...we cannot see.

Mr. Gandhi, you've to understand.

Bapu, Ba needs you

Please excuse me.

Ba...

Yes.

Where is Hari?

He will come

What will happen to him after me?

Bapu, promise me

You will take care of Hari

I will

He is not bad... just unfortunate

Where is my sari?

Which one?

You forgot?

The one you spun specially for me,

the one with a red border

Promise, you will drape that sari on me on my last journey

I will

Ba... Ba

Mohammad Ali Jinnah and his Muslim League...

...demanding partition of India along religious lines...

...called for direct action.

The result.

Unprecedented Hindu-Muslim riots.

Hundreds and thousands massacred in Bengal.

British administration simply collapsed.

Murderers roam freely and unchecked.

Louis Mt. Baton, the governor General of India called...

...Gandhi the one-man army.

...as he once again walks alone to stop the madness.

Where are you hiding?

Come out

Come out and kill me

As it is, how many years have I left to live

At least I will be spared this inhumanity, this barbarity

I won't have to bear this agony

How do I face the world?

Hindus call me a traitor and Muslims are praying for my death

But let me make this clear,

you can cut me into pieces,

but I will not be a willing party to a divided India

Never!

Can you find out where my Harilal is?

Why, Bapu?

Over the past few days, I've been thinking about him a lot

It's very difficult to trace him,

but we can try

If he joins me in this critical hour...

then I am ready to die in his lap, a very happy man

You know, the greatest regret of my life is...

...that there are two persons whom I could never convince

One is my friend from Kathiawad, Mohammed Ali Jinnah

And the second,

my own son Harilal

Harilal Gandhi

150 years of British rule enters its final hours.

One of the oldest civilizations...

...is split into two nations.

Mohammad Ali Jinnah is the new governor general...

...of the new Muslim majority, Pakistan.

On the eve of Indian Independence...

...Prime Minister Jawarhar Lal Nehru...

...address the constituent assembly.

Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny.

And now the time comes when we shall...

...redeem our pledge.

At the stroke of the midnight hour...

...when the world sleeps.

India will awake to light..

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history.

When we step out from the old to the new.

When the soul of a nation...

...long suppressed by utterance.

To avoid further bloodshed and violence...

...Gandhi reluctantly agreed to the partition of India.

Alone and dejected...

...the man of non-violence...

...now faces a new reality

The greatest migration in history.

Hundreds and thousands killed...

...in the sectarian violence.

Millions homeless.

The old, the sick, the young.

Dying of hunger and exhaustion.

Reports of unimaginable cruelty and daily massacres...

...shocks the world communities as it struggles...

...to respond to this...

...great humanitarian crisis.

15th August, 1947.

India is a free nation.

The lights have gone out of our life.

And there is darkness everywhere.

And I do not quite know what to tell you.

And how to say it.

Our beloved leader.

"Bapu", as we called him.

The Father of the nation, is no more.

Perhaps, I am wrong to say that...

...nevertheless, we will not see him again...

...as we've seen him for many years.

We will not run to him for advice.

Sir.

Please leave. We are closing shop now

Douse the coal.

Put it off.

Here. - The advice that I or anyone else can give you.

The light has gone out I said.

And yet I was wrong.

My Bapu is no more, I am an orphan now

The light that has been leading this country for so many years.

My Bapu is gone

This country for many years.

And a thousand years later that light will still be seen.

I don't want your money. Please keep it. Just go

That light...

Something more...

Those cowards. They killed him with bullets

Bullets!

My Bapu is gone, he has left us alone

"Lord Ram, blessed is thy name."

"Victory to you Lord Ram..."

"...the husband of Sita."

"You won without using any weapons."

"The battle of independence."

"We bow before you, for ages to come."

"We bow before you true believer of non-violence."

"You're God, and you're Allah."

"Bless all equally."

"Lord Ram, blessed is thy name.""

"Victory to you Lord Ram, the husband of Sita"

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