How well Gandhian ideas have taken roots in India? Have they?

📰 Primepost 11 Feb 2021
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We just held vardhanti of Mahatma Gandhi on January 30 and paid tributes yet again for 73rd time. But we also specially remember Gandhi a couple of times in a year as on January 26, August 25, November 26. Of course, political leaders in power and outside refer to Mahatma Gandhi and pay tributes many more times as often as possible. What has been the influence of all that on the life styles of people, on public behaviour, on the functioning of political parties, on our public policies? And on citizenship and civil society?