Seriously, non-cooperation movement is one of the most game changing idea of the century. After getting their adrenaline pumped by watching a couple of Bollywood movies on Bhagath Singh or reading about Subhash Chandra Bose some juveniles think that Gandhi is responsible for delay in India getting Independence. On the contrary if everybody co-operated in the non-cooperation movement of Gandhiji we would have got independence 25 years earlier. Just think about the idea - nobody working for government, how will the government run. Britishers would never have enough troups to cope up with the work . It is really a simple idea in which everybody can participate without shedding any blood. I feel that the idea of non-cooperation is frigging awesome. Instead of lauding Gandhi for coming up with such a simple idea and popularizing the notion of free India, some of the youngsters find fault with him.
It is just today that I realized how cool his idea is. But I had always been inspired by how honest and austere he was since the days I read his autobiography (I had to read it as a part of some Hindi course). He screwed up as a kid, but then he realized his mistakes and had confessed to his father. Do read the chapter about this confession from The story of my experiments with truth if possible. It is a heart touching story.
If anybody deserves respect he does, man. Please don't defame him just because you like some other freedom fighter more. These are not movie-stars or sports-stars over whom the fan bases indulge in online mud slinging all the time. These are people who sacrificed a lot for our freedom. Please respect all of them and don't judge them as we are not aware of the situations in those days.