Friday, February 11, 2011

Struggle -truce - struggle debate

After the civil disobedience movement ended in around 1934, there was a ideological war waged between Nehru and Gandhi. Nehru had a different vision for independence i.e. he believed that after any struggle of this sort the immediate goal should be VICTORY. Nehru had his own perceptions about things. Gandhi believed that Masses are not prepared for any more struggle right away, instead they should involve themselves into constructive work and strengthen themselves, energize themselves for the next one. Masses should involve themselves into parliamentary work, education, empowerment and every other constructive activity.

Nehru was completely against it and presented his S-V strategy i.e. struggle-victory while Gandhi completely believed that masses are not prepared for another exhaustive struggle. Gandhi gave the theory of STS i.e. Struggle -Truce- Struggle. Finally Nehru did realised that he was wrong. This incident is very eventful because every person goes through different sorts of struggle many a times in life but what needs to be remembered is that after every struggle whether it gets converted into success or failure there should be time where one should wait, hold and then move with the experience learned. Any person can be in any of these phases either Struggle, Truce or Victory. Sometimes its best to be in that "truce period" where what matters is how much you can hold on to what you have and what you are longing for...