ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses modern India within the format of a debate to reassess its nature and, in the process, identifies limitations, and highlights differences and acknowledge the efforts from modern India. It provides the nature of a debate, identifies different stages of the colonised self's attempt to overcome the state of slavery and provides the frame of debate, the predicament of the debate between Mahatma Gandhi and Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, published initially as Truth Called Them Differently. Setting the stage for the debate between Tagore and Gandhi, Kakasaheb Kalelkar explains how Rabindranath Tagore taught them to be 'self-respecting and behave in a dignified manner, in spite of constant and unmerited humiliation'. While Tagore contextualises the contributions of the medieval saints and reformers in relation to the modern reformers, Gandhi distinguishes them and highlights the contribution of the former group.
