LVMR Reflections - Gandhi

It is embarrassing to observe how many Indians misunderstand, despise and hate Gandhi. It is more embarrassing to note how this proportion increases as we move into elitist society. Most of the young Turks of the country blame Gandhi for everything this country has become, and the relatively older generation has apathy sort of for Gandhian principles and philosophies. How relevant are those? Does younger Indian generation need them, or do these people need any principles or philosophies at all?
Volumes have been written about all these, scores of people have gone deep into these matters. And I am certainly not an expert on this, so this is kind of disclaimer that these are all my amateur views.
The basic issues of the country are more or less same; the complexity has increased many folds. A large part of population is still reeling under poverty, corruption, lack of education and religious fanaticism. Oppression is still there and with Maoist violence and terrorism becoming bigger by the day in trying to consume the identity of India, we are in dire need of another revolution to bind us together to take us through this tumultuous phase. Any long-term solution, if there is any, will be based upon some basic principles, be it naked capitalism where money will be the cure of all diseases, or sort of dictatorship where the mighty and powerful take the decision as and when their time will come, or, anarchy, where everyone will go on the course they want to pursue. But it can be Gandhian principles as well, which still echoes through entire nation. It can still be based upon truth and non-violence, and tolerance and upliftment of lowest stratum of the society.
The issue with following Gandian principle is that though they are so simple, yet so deep in meaning that it cannot become a way of life unless completely understood and engrained. Following without understanding it completely will be like worshipping God, because we worship God, because we do not know enough about Him, and so we just follow verbatim what Holy Scriptures and sages tell us. But we have to understand Gandhi, because he was not a God, he was a human, a person with principles and conviction.
Unfortunately, with time, this level of understanding towards Gandhi and his principles has deteriorated. The new generation is trying to know Gandhi through bits and pieces of drama and fiction, with distorted facts and vested interests. They do not have time to go through volumes of Gandhi literature or to think and connect whatever little information they have.
However, one thing we all have to understand. Those Gandhian principles will be valid for all ages, like the Noble Eightfold Path of Buddha. They are not some obscure philosophical thesis, but core human values. The right way in this country is to spread that wisdom.
In many of the countries, military training is compulsory, every young has to go through it for certain period of time. In this country of non-violence, we should make Gandhi Shivir Compulsory. Everyone should spend some time each year; either in classroom, or some camp, or in some activity, to make him or her understand Gandhi and his ideals better. The results may not come instantly, but after some time we will have a force of Gandhi soldiers, making India become a nation the way Gandhi imagined.