HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

 Human Wrongs Watch

By Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service*

One of the best-known quotes about Western civilisation is the exchange attributed to the Mahatma Gandhi. What did he think of it? he was asked. The great man’s reply – “that would be a good idea” – has passed into legend.

Jake Lynch

Gandhi’s renown stems, of course, from his leadership role in a successful nonviolent movement to eject the British ruling class from India.

How to sum up the experience of the Indian peoples under colonial rule?

Westerners working in the subcontinent made some of the most important advances in modern medicine – establishing that malaria is spread by mosquitoes, for instance, or successfully vaccinating against cholera and bubonic plague.