The Hindu Business Line : Civil disobedience

Mahatma Gandhi started on the peaceful path of a civil disobedience movement by educating people on the non-payment of tax to drive away the British without any arms or ammunition. I fully endorse the views recently expressed in TV by a former corporate captain and chartered accountant that it is time we started a Gandhian-type civil disobedience movement.

Mumbaikars should start civil disobedience movement, non-cooperation movement, non-payment of tax, (maximum income-tax and central excise and service tax collections come from Mumbai to the Centre) to give a wake-up call to the ‘Kumbhakarna Prasashan’ that has sacrificed to the terrorists the lives of innocent citizens.

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and seems often, in fact, useless. Most high officials leave office with the same perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn to like the power of making decisions but not how to make the right decisions.

R. Ramakrishnan, Ahmedabad

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