Nathhu..

He  knows somewhere in his heart that he can not return from where he is headed.

”If possible and if God is on my side, my ashes will find their way to the waters of the holy river of Sindhu.”

All the incidents that had propelled him to choose this path, came to his mind again, to remind him the purpose.  

"Is it the right thing I am doing? Why can’t there be another way? History will never forgive me after what I am going to commit today, but I would rather die doing this, than to live without doing anything for my motherland"- He thought.

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Nathhu’s real name was Ramachandra. He was born and brought up in a good brahmin middle class family. All the boys that were born to his parents prior to him died in their infancy. His parents thought it to be a curse that was killing the male children and with that fear in mind, they brought up Nathhu as a girl for some years. They even had his nose pierced and being made to wear a nose-ring (nath in Marathi). It was then that he earned the nickname .After his younger brother was born, he was treated as a boy again.

As a young blood, he witnessed that dark day, when a scar was put on the chest of his motherland. This accrued immense hatred in his mind. He was among those who wished for an un-devided India. “There was never a single person who brought independence. So no single person or group can decide the fate of 33 lakh Indians” – he always told.

 Nathhu saw the carnage that the freedom brought which left thousands of people dead and homeless. He thought he needed to do something to stop it. That was when his destiny changed forever. He drifted towards a path he had never imagined for himself. In youth, anger can result in huge crimes, even for the pettiest of reasons. And this reason had it all. He was neither ashamed of doing it nor afraid of it’s consequences. Because he knew deep down that this was the only road to salvation for him.

Failing in his first attempt, he finally succeeded to deliver bullets on Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 's chest three times at point-blank range. The date was 30th January 1948  at 5:15PM. That was perhaps the last time he was a little doubtful about what he was doing.

Nathuram Vinayakrao Godse was hanged on 15 November 1949 (aged 39). People say an insane person killed Gandhi. Some say he had many reasons to do it. I personally feel, if he had to do it and if he felt it to be really important, he should have done it before August 14.

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 “I have no doubt that had the audience of that day been constituted into a jury and entrusted with the task of deciding Godse’s appeal, they would have brought in a verdict of ‘not guilty’ by an overwhelming majority”.

 - Justice G D Khosla (Involved in the Gandhi murder case trial