Mahatma Gandhi condemns transfer of lady IAS officer.

I wonder, if this would have been the headlines in the newsprint about the transfer of Chandana Khan IAS, Special Chief Secretary, Primary Education for her controversial remarks of asking students to clean toilets in schools.

For Gandhiji an ardent practitioner of Self-Help would be disappointed with all the controversy surrounding this statement made by the bureaucrat. Legend has it that when the daughter of a british governor general aspiring to follow the footsteps of Bapu came all the way to India to join at his ashram on the banks of the sabarmati river, the first task assigned to her was to clean up the lavatories which she did uncomplainingly.

When we as a nation should focus on self-reliance and self-discipline, such issues and controversies are a classic example of shooting down the messanger rather than seeking the message.