Would Gandhi want to come back?

Gandhi - "The father of the nation". I grew up idolizing Gandhi and Nehru in school. I even lost count the number of times I spoke about Gandhi on various occassions in school. My parents presented me with "My experiments with truth" and "The Discovery of India" when I was in class 7. Discovery of India was "cool". My experiments with truth was still beyond my comprehension though I read it from end to end. Perhaps I needed to be a little more mature to handle the philosophy behind the work rather than just possessing the vocabulary to go through it. Devoid of cable and a video player in childhood I used to religiously sit through the screenings of the movie "Gandhi" by Richard Attenborough telecast on Doordarshan every October 2nd. I was shocked when some of my seniors in Engineering abused Gandhi. I was disgusted by the way they made Gandhi the butt of all ridicule. During the course of the time I realized that it was the situation with most of the students. For some reasons unknown to both me and them - They hated Gandhi. They shunned Nehru. Yes, Gandhi and Nehru both made strategic mistakes while shaping up the country. If China was Nehru's nemesis, partition and communal riots were Gandhi's. But does that take away the credit they deserve? I don't think so. Mistakes happen. History cannot be changed or rewritten to suit the tastes of the present. One of the most frequently heard arguments was "We would have got freedom a long time before we actually got it if it had not been for Gandhi". Sure we would have got it but it would have been a bloody path to freedom. India would have joined the long list of countries which gained their freedom through violence. For Gandhi it was the means that justified the end. That the same method was successful in the Black Civil Rights movement and in South Africa bears testimony that it is effective and powerful. The method requires a mentally strong individual rather than the physically stong one. They may break your bones but not your will. When the west reveres Gandhi, Why can't we - the children of this land - accord him the same respect? Some people say we need another Gandhi to liberate us from the current state. The question here is "Will Gandhi like to take a rebirth in the first place?" People have become corrupt. Politics has become a money-making machine. The moral fabric of the society has been reduced to rags. Bribery rules. Gandhi was able to drive away the "White man" because that guy had a home land. Where will Gandhi banish the corrupt "brown man"? He can't do that because this is our home land! We need not even wonder if just the opposite happens and people drive Gandhi away! May be he would not want to live here anyway ...