GANDHI AND THE NATIONAL MOVEMENT 15 When we had a small war with Pakistan in 1965, our University had a meeting and our Chancellor said that if he had been young he would have gone to war with the Indian jawans. Then we had a compromise at Tashkent and the same Chancellor at a meeting held thereafter told us it had ben a very "foolish war" and in effect quoted EMS Namboodiripad. One realises that in these national enthusiasms of the moment, particularly of the kind that we have been through just now over Babri Masjid, and perhaps we will be going through such moments again and again, it is extremely important to stick to a principled position and to keep to it. I particularly wish to say that when SAHMAT adopted a certain position in respect of Ayodhya and when the Speaker defied all rules of the book, to direct that the SAHMAT exhibition must be removed from the premises of a public institution, then I think it was a mark of honour for SAHMAT to be so favoured. What SAHMAT did was precisely in accordance with what Gandhi had done; and therefore it is fitting today that while commemorating Safdar Hashmi, we also celebrate Gandhi.