CAMP IN DANTEWADA Elementary. It’s a conflict that is killing the poor.
CHANGE THE CONGRESS PRESIDENT Even giants like Bose, Nehru, Azad and Patel didn’t get more than a year or so.
GO ON HUNGER STRIKE AT ATTARI-WAGAH The border is a line across hearts, Gandhi might have said, not nations. What better way to make this point than to stop eating.
OPEN AN ASHRAM FOR ALCOHOLICS His eldest son Harilal died as Independent India’s most famous alcoholic. There are many more now.
GONE ON A GODHRA MARCH Dandi worked. Godhra might have too.
MOVED THE CABINET INTO THE VILLAGES UPA 2 has become too robotic to excite. He would’ve moved them where they should connect, the villages.
PUT MANEKA GANDHI OUT OF A JOB He was a big one for animal welfare. No need for a politician to make her name off it.
FORGIVE KASAB It’s the thing he did well. Shame the perpetrator into making amends. Did it with Suhrawardy in Calcutta, would do with Kasab.
WIND UP THE CONGRESS His last advice to the Congress was to disband the organisation. More reason now to do so.
SIMPLY DIE ON BABRI MASJID Too much for him, that his countrymen should destroy and kill in the name of Ram.
10 THINGS HE WOULDN’T
1Use his picture on currency2Allow Operation Green Hunt3Have a holiday on 2 October 4Agree to a nuclear deal5Hold CWG 20106Hide from the press. He loved it 7 Name everything after him 8Allow dynasty in politics9Act on stone-pelters in Kashmir. Would’ve have supped with them10Allow China a free hand. Would’ve been a match for Mao