1. FREEDOM
DR.
SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR
Is an individual or an organization that does not
participate in political freedom movement under
the leadership of another particular
organization antinational?
An individual could be an artist, a scientist, a
hermit or a health worker, and may not
participate in a political freedom struggle. There
are many examples of this type of great people
in Indian history.

2. He could be in some government departments
(such as post and telegraph, police, military and
so on) while they were under the alien rulers and
may not participate in political freedom
movement.
He could be a part of an organization involved in
different social reforms and may not get
involved in political freedom movement.
He could be a part of an organization or a group
that felt, religious dogmas e.g. untouchability;
could hinder the evolution of equality. His goal
may be focused on annihilation of such dogmas
and may not participate in political freedom
movement.
He could be one of those who sincerely felt
theism as a tool of exploitation and theism made
individuals parasitic, or dependent and/or
helpless. He may therefore get involved in

3. propagation of atheism and annihilation of
theism in every respect and not get involved in
political freedom movement.
He could be a believer of a theory that a
revolution (freedom from exploitation and equal
opportunity to all) is not possible in an isolated
country. So a political freedom movement would
be thought by him as belonging and beneficial to
a particular section and not all inclusive. He
may not participate in a political freedom
movement that according to him belongs to
exploiter could serve purpose of only small
exploiter section of a society.
He could be in an organization that believed in
identity of a nation on the basis of a religion or a
culture or indigenousness. He may therefore
dedicate himself to uniting people on the basis of
such national identity, on priority basis rather
than getting involved in political freedom
movement.

4. He may belong to a religion that did not believe
in idol worship and thought idols were
hindrances in the way of God. He thought
imagery of different kinds entangles and
throttles one. He may therefore choose to pursue
the goal of destroying idols and annihilating all
kinds of worship of imagery.
He could have belonged to a particular caste,
religion, region or ethnic group and got
overwhelmed by the emotional appeal for
assertiveness and welfare of that section the
society.
62 years after political freedom of India, every
individual and organization whether having
participated in the political struggle or not, have
to appreciate that the different feelings and
different ideologies, viewpoints, strategies and
actions at individual and organizational levels
can have some element of truth and error.

5. It is most urgent to get rid of pettiness,
superficiality, self righteousness and fanaticism
and accept OUR and forgive OTHERS’
erroneous viewpoints, strategies and actions and
immerse in a vision and mission of blossoming
of one and all.
DR. SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR