A Gandhian Stand Against the Culture of Cruelty | by Pankaj Mishra | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

A Gandhian Stand Against the Culture of Cruelty | by Pankaj Mishra | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books: Watching Sri Lankans parade the Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran’s mutilated corpse, Rahul Gandhi wondered, “Why they are humiliating this man in this way?” It was this merciful vision that Gandhi, after years of grief and righteous rage, expressed recently as he forgave those who killed his father, Rajiv. Rahul Gandhi may turn out to be another self-seeking dynast. But there is dignity in his dissent today from a worldwide culture of cruelty; and it is a rare reminder that many frozen seas of pity will have to melt before we regain a semblance of civil society.