Mahatma Gandhi And Cooperative......part-1

For the next few posts, I would like to write the views of Father of our nation on collective action and cooperation.Many times my friends have asked-"why you always quote Gandhi?He is now irrelevant.Time has changed."And,my answer always is-"Time change per nano-second.But,basic values have never changed.It gets respect from the time immemorial.If I would not quote Gandhi,then whom I quote-Harshad Mehta,Dhirubhai Ambani or Gautam Adani?"
Once Gandhi writes-"Man is not born to live in isolation but is essentially a social animal independent and inter-dependent.No one can or should ride on another's back.If we try to work out necessary conditions for such a life,we are forced to the conclusion that the unit of society should be a village or call it be a manageable small group of people who would,in the ideal,be self-sufficient(in the matter of their vital requirements) as a unit and bound together in bonds of mutual co-operation and interdependence."