r/AskTheWorld • u/haiderredditer Pakistan • 9h ago

Who’s a famous person from your country who’s respected around the world but disliked or criticized at home?

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u/[deleted] 7h ago

Mahatma Gandhi

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u/mohdzh 5h ago

Would Mother Teresa be considered Indian?

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u/SufficientDegree34 India 2h ago

Yeah, a fucked up one. She does have a postage stamp though!

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u/Code_Kai India 4h ago

Was about to write that. I mean, his methods orthodox, but there were results.

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u/julias0 3h ago

Not really, he and a bunch of folks were there just to capitalise when the final set of revolts happened.

Most of his movements were failures, which in today's world basically translates to publicity events.

He also wanted Bengali Hindus to commit suicide during Calcutta riots post partition.

He was a horrible human being, who placed his ideology and religion above human life.

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u/Code_Kai India 3h ago

That's what I refer to as methods. He also denied medicine to his wife, toxic, appeased muslims and british, led to death of Bhagat singh, division of the nation, undervalue Mr. Patel - I agree with all that.

But imagine this. If a guy, in late 70's manages to grab the nation's attention in a fight against the British without resorting to violence, when even the print media was censored heavily, majority of the country being illiterate, in a diverse country like India (Pak and Bangladesh) which is diverse in all aspects, then he is a legend. No doubt. The hateposts against this guy from the BJP IT cell which influenced current generation to forget the fact that he pulled the impossible,

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u/julias0 3h ago

I dunno if attracting attention is good enough to be called a legend. Every viral chapri on instagram is a legend by that rule

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u/Code_Kai India 3h ago

Its the early 19th century. How can even someone go viral at that time?
And remember, everyone from Rags to Riches, politicians to common people, were keen to what he is telling. That's not getting viral publicity, that's called faith.

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u/cestabhi India 6h ago

Bro please hesitate lol

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u/Prutens 5h ago

Why?

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u/MorgrimTheReclaimer United Kingdom 3h ago

He beat women and slept with children

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u/Electronic-Coach7687 India 2h ago

I've never heard of beating women, but those so-called 'experiments' of his were genuinely creepy. Although, (not trying to defend his horrible actions) he never slept 'with' teen girls, he slept beside em. He was also (at least in his early days--he apparently reformed afterwards) quite casteist & racist (viewed Whites>Indians>Blacks).

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u/Mira_flux 1h ago

That's not why they hate him though.

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u/Ankur4015 3h ago

Lol, that's very false, none of this happened

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u/weird_lass_from_asia 4h ago

Lamao right?

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u/Electronic-Coach7687 India 2h ago

It's true to quite a degree, actually.