Mahatma Gandhi and Maddelachervu Suri

Mahatma Gandhi and Gangula Suri Died of Natural Causes
When we look at it closely, both Mahatma Gandhi and Maddelachervu Suri died of natural causes: Gandhi died of hatred, which is a natural, human, emotion; and Suri died of violence, which is natural behavior of humans in a natural state. We say that those who live by the sword die by the sword, but that does not explain Gandhiji’s assassination; he was a victim of non-violence. It was a war between violence and non-violence. It was an intolerant youth who did not like the whole business of non-violence and tolerance, who ended the life of a great soul. If Godse told Gandhiji to give up his life, the great man would have willingly took poison and died, a la Socrates; that is speculation: let us not indulge in that.
In some versions of social contract theory, there are no rights in the state of nature, only freedoms, and it is the contract that creates rights and obligations. In other versions the opposite occurs: the contract imposes restrictions upon individuals that curtail their natural rights.
Mahatma Gandhi died of bullets from a commoner who turned violent after the partition carnage; Gandhiji paid the price for not wearing a bullet-proof vest and going into public with an open heart. (Rajiv Gandhi did wear a bullet-proof vest but yet died, at a later point in history; but that is another story.) Gandhiji died of natural causes: he was an advocate of non-violence in the midst of a violently divided country: violence was the order of the day. Godse was just an accident; Gandhiji could have died of a road accident, caused by a speeding car, when he was crossing the road slowly.
The Hobbesian Man
Charles Hobbes wrote, three centuries ago that “any person has a natural right to the liberty to do anything he wills to preserve his own life, and life is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short". He also posited that "during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man". Man, in a state of nature is – greedy, selfish, and horny, says the American philosopher and cartoonist Scott Adams.
State of nature is a term in political philosophy used in social contract theories to describe the hypothetical condition of humanity before the state's foundation. In a broader sense, the state of nature is the condition before the rule of positive law comes into being, thus being a synonym of anarchy. The idea of the state of nature was a part of a classical republicanism theory as a hypothetical reason of entering a state of society by establishing a government.
In this state of affairs, it is Gandhi against Godse; it is Suri against Bhanu: it is one man against the other. Road rage and greed are still the order of the day…
Speed and Greed…
Maddelachervu Suri died of greed: he wanted everything. He wanted millions, and fast; speed and greed killed him: because his followers, too wanted fast bucks, and ‘naturally’ differences cropped up in the process of their ‘settlements’. This led to the brutal, close-range shooting of Suri and his untimely death. There are several ‘angles’ to this news item: the followers of the late Paritala Ravindra are supposedly involved in this brutal murder. But the angle no one has looked at is that of human greed: Suri is greedy; his followers are greedy; his opponents are greedy; all of us are greedy.
Suri's last rites will be performed Wednesday, his family said.
Bottomline Error
In the previous feature on Aliens and their space stations, it was incorrectly printed that these ‘stations’ will be bombed; read it as “may be bombed.”