Name: Sangeeta Hasija
Country: India

Year: 2017
Volume: Volume-2, Issue-2 (July-December)
Page Number: 84-89

Gandhi taught the gospel of brotherhood by not only preaching it rather by practicing it in his whole life. His teachings have a universal appeal. He believed in the essential unity of man and the underlying unity of all the nations. He did not make any distinctions between religions, nations or races. "I have known no distinction between relatives and strangers, countrymen and foreigners, white and coloured, Hindus and Indians of other faiths, whether Musalmans, Parsis, Christians or Jews" .
With this philosophy in mind, he acted as a torchbearer for the people living in the darkness of ignorance, narrow-mindedness, hatredness, violence and otherness.
There is no doubt that we are living in a world of increasing violence and confusion and it is felt that the post-modern human civilization is going through a crisis. Individually human beings feel alienated from the community and now a days there is much more despair and sorrow among them. The world is torn apart in perpetual conflicts, wars and social divisions. And in all social relationships, as MacIntyre observes 'truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness' .