'S' in Ahimsa stands for sexual oppression

A father, as defined in the Oxford dictionary, is a founder of an organisation. Yet, the Founder of a large portion of India’s deep roots in sexual oppression and victim blaming is regarded as the Father of the very nation.

Mahatma Gandhi, a champion of the cause for India’s freedom and a man responsible for inspiring great men such as Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr., is given credit for seizing India non-violently, but he is robbed of some more credit where it is due. Gandhi was also a puritan and a misogynist who helped ensure that India remains one of the most sexually repressed nations on Earth. Pointing to his inclusion of women in India's independence struggle, Gandhi and his hagiographers claimed he viewed women as equal to men. But he carried inside monstrously sexist views. During Gandhi's time as a dissident in South Africa, he discovered a male youth had been harassing two of his female followers. Gandhi responded by cutting the girls' hair off, he boasted of the incident in his writings, pushing the message to all Indians that women should carry responsibility for sexual attacks upon them. This legacy still lingers. In the summer of 2009, colleges in North India reacted to a spate of sexual harassment cases by banning women from wearing jeans, as western-style dress was too "provocative" for the males on campus.

Gandhi is celebrated worldwide as a great man; his genius was to realise the great power of nonviolent political revolution. But the violence of his thoughts towards women has contributed to generations of sexual repression.

There's a fine line between a saint and a sinner but the ‘s’ in ahimsa stands for sexual oppression.