TRANSLATION OF AN
EXCERPT FROM ‘INDRAIYA GANDHI’
BY JEYAMOHAN
To look at Gandhi in the
context of technology is to understand that he was a man who had his doubts on
modernism and looked beyond that….
….When once asked ‘Do you hate machines?’ ‘No’, answered Gandhi ‘While my body on itself is nothing but a
meticulous machinery How can I dismiss it? My spinning wheel or even this
toothpick, for that matter, is a machine. I hate not the machines, but this
growing passion for machines. I hate the passion for the machines which work
upon diminishing man power. Some talk about machine which could spare man power
when thousands of people are thrown jobless on the streets. Yes, I want the
human toil and time to be spared not just for a sect of people but for the
humanity. I want the wealth to be accumulated not just in few hands but for all
the people in the world. Today machines favor putting handful of people on top
thousands.’