@fu Your dad is a wise man. Gandhi is certainly a very important politicocultural figure for us, not denying that but no one person unless that person is an avatar can be considered flag bearer of Hinduism in conventional terms. That's what I meant. I don't think religion encourages people to become violent but some people's interpretation and inability to tolerate difference in opinion is what leads to violence. At the root of it, it's just human nature and it's workings imho.