“Nuclear-armed neighbours, India and Pakistan, step back from the brink.” Dawn, Karachi newspaper, Pakistan, Monday 12 May 2025.

In India in 1948, Nathuram Vinayak Godse, thirty-eight years old citizen of India, assassinated Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, seventy-nine years old citizen of India. Godse committed the murder in broad daylight, a few steps in front of Gandhi. Although Godse shot Gandhi three times at point-blank range, Gandhi collapsed to the ground and lived a few minutes afterwards, long enough to forgive Godse, in words and a traditional Hindu religious ritual gesture signifying atonement.

Godse did not try to escape. He was taken prisoner on the spot. In a court-of-law trial, he was convicted of murder. He was hanged for his crime eighteen months later.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a lawyer in India whose career from the beginning went nowhere painfully slowly. When he was twenty-four years old, he was so desperate for work as a lawyer that he accepted employment in a foreign country, South Africa. He left India so hastily, he did not take his wife and three children to South Africa. They joined him three years later.

He lived and worked in South Africa for twenty-one years. South Africa, like India, was a colony in the British Empire. The British Empire racism that Gandhi suffered in South Africa was far worse than he had experienced in India.

In India, to express his Hindu belief that all Gods are equally interracial, Gandhi had joined Christian Indians in their Church worship many times. When he entered an Anglican Christian Church in the City of Durban in British Empire South Africa to participate in Christian worship, Gandhi was unaware that Church, by British Imperial law, accepted European Whites, only. The racist British White priest-in-charge ordered Gandhi to exit the premises, “or else.” Gandhi obeyed that British racist clergyman.

When Gandhi boarded a train in the city of Pietermaritzburg in British Empire South Africa, he sat in a “First Class” compartment. The White British racist Conductor ejected Gandhi off the train as a “troublemaker.” In racist British Empire South Africa only European Whites were allowed to travel “First Class.”

The first citizens in the town of Fynnland in the Province of Natal in British Empire South Africa were Hindu Indian immigrants from British Empire India over thirty years before Gandhi arrived in 1893 to visit. In 1893, there were more British White Christian racists living in Fynnland than Hindu Indians. “Coleman’s” was the only grocery store in Fynnland. Indian customers were not allowed to enter the store when there were White customers inside. When Gandhi entered the store there were White customers inside, already. Gandhi was physically shoved out by Mister Coleman himself, and warned to never again enter the store.

In those two decades Gandhi lived in British Empire South Africa, he achieved nothing of lasting worth, and so in 1914, he traveled to London, England, to live, and to work as a lawyer. He took his family with him.

His London venture was a complete failure from the beginning. In less than a year he abandoned England and returned to India in 1915.

In India, the Indian National Congress Party was waging a campaign for India’s independence from the British Empire. At first, Gandhi had no interest in joining the campaign, nor the Congress Party, but by 1920 when his lawyer career, again, for the fourth time in his life, was going nowhere, and the Party hired him as one of their lawyers, he joined the Indian National Congress Political Party.

Like a duck to water, Gandhi espoused the many civil disobedience campaigns organized by the Party against British Empire rule. Nobody has cared to explain this sudden wholesale incredible adoption of defiant Politics as a career by Gandhi, a lawyer!

Never again in his life did he serve as a lawyer. It never bothered the lawyer in him to march with people against British Empire laws in India. He had come to love being a sincerely self-effacing demagogic leader of ‘the masses.’ Those masses loved him so they bestowed upon him the title of “Father of our Nation”, Bapu, decades before India won independence from the British Empire.

In 1924, at age fifty-five, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi became the elected President of the Indian National Congress.

His first most spectacular Political achievement was accomplished in 1930. The tyrannical British Empire rulers of India had imposed a tax on salt, a commodity on which the British rulers had the sales monopoly.

Gandhi led tens of thousands of Indian citizens on a march of defiance against the tax, 240 miles to the shores of the Indian ocean.

From then on, Gandhi’s leadership of the masses became the most important single driving force in the Independence movement of the Indian National Congress.

The British Empire rulers of India sabotaged the Indian campaign for Political Independence from the Empire by inciting Islamic Indians to campaign for a country of their own, independent of India. The British malevolent sabotage succeeded; eventually, India was broken up into three independent countries: India, West Pakistan (Pakistan), East Pakistan (Bangladesh.)

Nathuram Vinayak Godse had joined an Indian Political organization that opposed the evil spiteful British plan to break up India into three countries.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, abandoning his freely-selected role of Politician, his second career, was, by 1948, in full religious mode, his third career choice. Astonishingly in agreement with the evil British Empire rulers of India, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi campaigned for the establishment of the two religion-based countries of West and East Pakistan, one on either side of India.

In justification of his disloyalty to India, which was and had been for centuries before Gandhi a multi-religion Nation, Gandhi pronounced his, “We are all God’s children.”

Gandhi’s disloyalty to India earned him the unforgiving righteously murderous anger of his fellow Hindu Indian, Nathuram Vinayak Godse.

At the time of the assassination, Godse was not an active member of any Political Party, and was employed elsewhere as a mere menial. He had little and incomplete post-Secondary education. He acted alone. His life has been written about exhaustively, and nobody has uncovered the existence of a deadly group conspiracy, Political or Religious, involving Godse against Gandhi.

There were remarkable similarities in the lives of Nathuram Vinayak Godse and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Both had difficulties coping with Secondary school education. Godse did not complete Secondary School education. Both were Hindus, ordinary and without even a trace of fanaticism. Both joined Political Parties for reasons other than commitment to Political ideals.

Godse had fired three bullets into Gandhi’s chest less than an arm’s length in front of Gandhi. Gandhi struggled to speak. Those closest to him claimed Gandhi uttered the word “Ram” a few times; his last words. Was Gandhi trying to pray to his Hindu God, Rama? Or was he addressing Godse in friendly forgiveness? The last syllable in Godse’s first name is “Ram.”

The word “Ram” has Ancient pedigree. In the written languages of Sanskrit and Aramaic (the language Jesus spoke) three- thousand years ago, Ram on its own and as a syllable in another word, denoted ‘high, pleasing, charming, exalted.’ “The cross-cultural appeal and adaptation of the word Ram underscore its universal theme of honor and nobility.”

In the Bible the syllable ‘Ram’ within the name of a place denotes special honour: Ramath, Ramathaim, Ramah.

The last words being “Ram” spoken by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi as he was dying and looking at his assassin, Nathuram, sealed forever their blessed Hindu union.

The guess that Godse assassinated Gandhi because of Gandhi’s support of the spitefully vengeful evil British plan to grant independence from India of West and East Pakistan is based on the fact that many years earlier Godse had been a member of the Hindu Political Party named the Hindu Mahasabha. That Party was staunchly against the spitefully vengeful evil British plan to break up India into three countries, based solely on Religion.

Because that spitefully vengeful evil British plan succeeded in 1947, with Gandhi’s approval, India and Pakistan have been in malevolent military conflict for seventy-eight years; at present threatening each other with nuclear annihilation.