Thou Godse as seen in the Play and the Book of which I read a few pages never sounds Anti Gandhi, his ideology and thought process is in stark contrast to that of Gandhi and against which I have based this review of mine
The reason to kill Gandhi.- as comes out is the shock and horror of partition which he puts it as one of the prime reason to kill MG.
Reading his beliefs ( I am sure the play would have revealed that) makes more interesting read than the reason to kill Gandhi
Even If accepting at Face value that MG’s ideology of a Plural society caused the country dear in the Creation of PAKISTAN, he never personally endorsed Partition accept for the coterie around him.
Godse came from The RSS school of thought of a Theocratic Indian state based on Hindu rasthra. A country which of-course was not the vision of MG, and the Vision which has stood the TEST OF TIME .
Today India is the Largest Practicing democracy in the world, where freedom of choice, freedom of life , freedom to elect, freedom to succeed in Life physically, mentally, spiritually is a granted birth right.
In a theocratic Indian state, I doubt whether this choices would have been available to even a minority of the fellow hindus.
An analogy- the hundreds and thousands of Indians who have made it good in the USof A wouldn’t have if one day the US had decided to become a Theocratic Christian state and thus Discriminating the Indian Hindus and Muslims migrating/settling there based on their religion.
The Likes of LN MITTAL and scores of other India Industrialists would not have made it to the Global level if countries around the Globe where they had their businesses discriminated on the basis of their religion.
The Few theocratic countries still around like the Saudi, are developed because of the immense Natural bounty but its citizens still live an incomplete life with
No real choices except money.
India in spite of its limited Natural resource is on the rise today because of the resource of its free citizens (Information Technology) who had the freedom and the choice to get themselves the best of skills and thus succeed in life with little or no help from the government.
In a Theocratic Indian state would India have become the BPO back bone of the world that it is today?
Thus a Plural society which was MG’s vision and probably the reason why he hesitantly agreed to Partition ( since Pakistan ultimately ended up what it is today)has stood the TEST OF TIME.
The vision and Ideology of the Likes of Godse and his masters in the RSS have little or few takers today around the globe in 2005.
Regards