Gandhi and the Modern India

I recently watched the movie 'Gandhi'. It was an amazing movie. It gave an insight of all the Gandhi's principles. One of the most amazing dialogue was this- "they will arrest me, they will torture me, they will kill me. That way they will have my dead body but not my obedience."

Before Gandhi, all the people against the British rule were looking at British as they are foreign, which they were, but they claimed India as their territory. As India was a part of Britain, Indians were the citizens of Britain. This is where Gandhi's philosophy starts- if we are your citizens, you must give us our basic human rights. To which, the British had no answer. As England was a democracy, it was a pure hypocrisy to put India under central rule. British passed laws which ambushed basic human rights of Indians. For eg. A law was made which gave police right to arrest any Indian without any proof of him committing a crime. Such laws enraged Indians and they started violence against British. British could easily put them in jail and even sentence them to death. Gandhi always asked Indians to follow the path of non-violence. Gandhi refused to fight against British. He said," I will not fight against you, but I will not obey your orders either". This was a revolutionary way of opposing a foreign rule like British. Fighting British would've yielded in independence only if Indians were able to win the war. But Gandhi's method was going to succeed regardless of any other thing, which it did. Truth always triumphs!!
I thought I should write on this topic because I observed increasing hate towards Gandhi and his philosophy. Indians always hated him because he didn't stop the division of British empire into India and Pakistan. The new generation of Indians totally disagree with the Gandhi's philosophy. Gandhi once quoted that if someone slaps you on the cheek, ask him to slap you on the other. What he wanted to convey from that statement was the concept of non-violence. But people took it literally and then ridiculed his whole philosophy. But people really didn't think this through. If someone really slaps you, because of no valid reason, the first think we tend to do is to slap him back. Well then there is no difference between you and him. Just because he hurt you, doesn't give you the right to hurt him. The most appropriate thing to do in this situation is to call police and file a complaint against that person. People who oppose Gandhi also say that if China hypothetically declared a war against India and dropped an A-bomb on one of the major cities, would you still be asking for nonviolence? My answer to them is - Yes, I would. Firstly, in such situation, attacking China back with nuclear weapons is not correct. Because, China killed millions of innocent Indians, but that doesn't give India a right to kill millions of innocent Chinese. Lets say I am a Chinese guy living in, say Guangzhou, I want my government to have good relations with India, but my govt doesn't listen to me because it isn't a democracy. Now why should I suffer death just because my government killed a million Indians in Chennai? Another thing is that if India attacks back, there is no guarantee that war will stop after the score becomes 1-1. The war will still continue and there will be more and more people dead.
What India should do in this situation is to go to UN. The only way to stop this war will be by putting financial restrictions on China by all the UN member nations. And if China still doesn't stop, then India could at least get military help from the UN. Because in this situation, China is the only bad guy. Whereas if India attacks China back, it also becomes the bad guy for killing innocents and looses the authority to ask for help, and it becomes impossible for India to win the war. The only way to fight against the evil China, in order to have minimum loss of nation is by the way of Gandhi. He always said,"An eye for an eye, turns the whole world blind".