Source: – @GabbarSanghi / Twitter.
Like most Marathi Brahmins of that era, Godse was quite influenced by the reformist movements, and had joined RSS. Very much against casteism, Godse walked the talk, by attending inter caste dinners, interacting with lower castes. S
— Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల (@GabbarSanghi) May 19, 2019
Godse had a diverse set of influences from Chanakya to Vivekananda to Tilak. Also studied Socialism and Marxism in detail. But more than anything two people whose teachings he studied in detail were Gandhi and Savarkar.
— Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల (@GabbarSanghi) May 19, 2019
All this reading and thinking led me to believe it was my first duty to serve Hindudom and Hindus both as a patriot and as a world citizen. To secure the freedom and to safeguard the just interests of some thirty crores (300 million) of Hindus- Nathuram Godse in his last speech
— Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల (@GabbarSanghi) May 19, 2019
To secure the freedom and to safeguard the just interests of some thirty crores (300 million) of Hindus would automatically constitute the freedom and the well-being of all India , one fifth of human race.- Nathuram Godse
— Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల (@GabbarSanghi) May 19, 2019
Godse like most of the Hindu Sangathanists, at that time believed that both Hindu interests and Indian freedom were interrelated, he did not see it in isolation. And this was not his viewpoint alone, had come from earlier thinkers too.
— Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల (@GabbarSanghi) May 19, 2019
Since the year 1920, that is, after the demise of Lokamanya Tilak, Gandhiji’s influence in the Congress first increased and then became supreme. His activities for public awakening were phenomenal in their intensity – Nathuram Godse
— Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల (@GabbarSanghi) May 19, 2019
Regarding his feelings towards Gandhi, fact is Godse acknowledged him as the most popular mass leader after Tilak, and he really did not have an issue with his slogans of truth and violence. What he had an issue with was Gandhi's rather doctrinaire approach,
— Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల (@GabbarSanghi) May 19, 2019
In fact, honour, duty and love of one’s own kith and kin and country might often compel us to disregard non-violence and to use force. I could never conceive that an armed resistance to an aggression is unjust.- Nathuram Godse.
— Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల (@GabbarSanghi) May 19, 2019
. I would consider it a religious and moral duty to resist and, if possible, to overpower such an enemy by use of force. Ram killed Ravana in the Ramayana to win back Sita, Krishna killed Kamsa, Arjun had to fight an entire Kurukshetra. -Nathuram Godse.
— Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల (@GabbarSanghi) May 19, 2019
. It is my firm belief that in dubbing Rama, Krishna and Arjuna as guilty of violence, the Mahatma betrayed a total ignorance of the springs of human action. – Nathuram Godse, he was not the only one who said this on Gandhi.
— Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల (@GabbarSanghi) May 19, 2019
. In condemning history’s towering warriors like Shivaji, Rana Pratap and Guru Gobind Singh as misguided patriots, Gandhiji has merely exposed his self-conceit. He was, paradoxical as it may appear, a violent pacifist who brought untold calamities on the country-Godse
— Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల (@GabbarSanghi) May 19, 2019
It's not that Godse totally detested Gandhi. He acknowledged what he did for the Indian community in South Africa. But he was against the way Gandhi indulged in emotional bullying to get his way done, of not allowing other viewpoints to come up.
— Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల (@GabbarSanghi) May 19, 2019
If the country wanted his leadership, it had to accept his infallibility; if it did not, he would stand aloof from the Congress and carry on his own way.- Again Godse was not the first to say this on Gandhi, the Mahatma had quite a record of suppressing opposing POVs.
— Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల (@GabbarSanghi) May 19, 2019
Against such an attitude there can be no halfway house. Either Congress had to surrender its will to his and had to be content with playing second fiddle to all his eccentricity, whimsicality, metaphysics and primitive vision, or it had to carry on without him. – Godse
— Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల (@GabbarSanghi) May 19, 2019
Godse was critical of the way the Mahatma played around with movements, starting and stopping them at his whims and fancies. He would start something, then withdraw it, rarely took something to it's logical conclusion.
— Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల (@GabbarSanghi) May 19, 2019
A Satyagrahi can never fail’ was his formula for declaring his own infallibility and nobody except himself knew what a Satyagrahi is. Thus, the Mahatma became the judge and jury in his own cause. – Nathuram Godse,
— Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల (@GabbarSanghi) May 19, 2019
Many people thought that his politics were irrational but they had either to withdraw from the Congress or place their intelligence at his feet to do with as he liked. In a position of such absolute irresponsibility Gandhi was guilty of blunder after blunder- Godse
— Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల (@GabbarSanghi) May 19, 2019
Gandhi gave a great impetus to Hindi but as he found that the Muslims did not like it, he became a champion of what is called Hindustani.. Everybody in India knows that there is no language called Hindustani; it has no grammar; it has no vocabulary. – Godse
— Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల (@GabbarSanghi) May 19, 2019
. It is a bastard tongue and cross-breed between Hindi and Urdu, and not even the Mahatma’s sophistry could make it popular. But in his desire to please the Muslims he insisted that Hindustani alone should be the national language of India . – Godse
— Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల (@GabbarSanghi) May 19, 2019
August 1946, the Muslim League began it's massacre of Hindus, Wavell cud not use his powers to stop there, and there of course was retaliation by Hindus. Once again Muslim League members sabotaged the interim Government.
— Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల (@GabbarSanghi) May 19, 2019
Now here was the catch, in spite of the Muslim League's open hatred for Hindus, sabotaging any Govt formation, Gandhi just kept pandering to their whims and fancies, Tried appeasing them more and more.
— Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల (@GabbarSanghi) May 19, 2019
What did this pandering to the Muslim League bullying by Gandhi achieve? Partition of India, bloody riots, and Jinnah having the last laugh. We lost one third of our territory.
— Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల (@GabbarSanghi) May 19, 2019
And then the other great hero who was glorified in our books- Lord Mountbatten.
June 30,1948 was the actual date for India's independence, Mountbatten did it much before, giving us a Partitioned India.— Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల (@GabbarSanghi) May 19, 2019
It was for this reason that he purposely avoided imposing any condition on the Muslims. He was fully aware of from the experience that Jinnah was not at all perturbed or influenced by his fast and the Muslim League hardly attached any value to the inner voice of Gandhi.- Godse
— Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల (@GabbarSanghi) May 19, 2019
I stoutly maintain that Gandhi has failed in his duty.His inner-voice, his spiritual power and his doctrine of non-violence of which so much is made of, all crumbled before Jinnah’s iron will and proved to be powerless. – Nathuram Godse
— Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల (@GabbarSanghi) May 19, 2019
What I have tweeted on Godse is based on his last speech, I have just taken the excerpts from it. You can find the full one here. Request to do read it and think over it, and the points he raised. Rest I leave it you.https://t.co/MQZ6yisAYA
— Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల (@GabbarSanghi) May 19, 2019
I stick to my belief, Nathuram Godse is not the villian he is made out to be. I know this is not a very popular or politically correct thing to say. So be it. I said what I had to say, I don't expect every one to agree. It's ok I am ready for the backlash.
— Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల (@GabbarSanghi) May 19, 2019
I know this thread of mine is going to offend many, not just among Liberals, but even among many RWs too.. Well so be it, I stated what I had to state, I leave it to my followers to decide, and think. Thank you all.
— Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల (@GabbarSanghi) May 19, 2019
