The great Mahatma was a 'fantastic' HR manager

Mahatma Gandhi was a 'fantastic' human resource manager and could have given executives of multinational companies a run for their money with his strategies, says his great-grandson.

The Mahatma "used sheer strategy to outwit opponents and position his brand at a premium position as evident in the way he led the freedom struggle", Tushar Gandhi said while delivering the Gandhi Peace Foundation Lecture on Tuesday.

He said the father of the nation was able to attract both foreign educated urbanites and farmers of Champaran on a common platform for fighting for India's independence.

Delivering his lecture on Gandhi's Relevance in an age of terrorism and globalisation, 47-year-old Tushar said management gurus should learn from the way the Mahatma conducted the national movement.

"He was an excellent event manager. And the 1930 Salt Satyagraha was an excellent example of his planning. He planned the event to perfection and Motilal Nehru acknowledged this by saying that he saw the effectives of the struggle even before it started," Tushar said.

Noting that the Mahatma should not be worshipped like a "modern age spiritual guru", he said people need "digested knowledge about him and were not willing to know him from his own teachings".

"We have done a great disservice to him by turning him into a formula of khadi, charka and non-violence. We have frozen his philosophy and not allowed it to grow," he said, noting that youngsters vouch for vibrancy and it comes from the growth of the school of thought.

He was a man who left behind a great philosophy "if you want to change the world, change yourself", Tushar said.

The Mahatma's teachings are still relevant as the world is facing the threat of terrorism, he said. "The war on terror is not making the world safer. Bullets will not work. We must understand that violence will not work."

Source: DNA India

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