nobody kicks a dead dog

my grandfather is a very interesting character,though annoying at times.he asks me time as many times as i enter his room.the high time to speak to him is in evening after he gulps some rum.often to extract things out of him i praise gandhiji and nehruji for their contribution to our freedom,this tickles a bone of contention in him.he says that these two had done nothing but took over the government after independence.he is a great fan of bhagat singh and subhash chander bose and held them responsible for our independence.i have tried many times to convince him about the role of former two but all in vain.
this is the case with most of us.we find glory in criticizing these great people.in my opinion greatness of these people lie in the fact that they can be critcized without any fear of retaliation.stones are always thrown at the tree which bears fruit.can you criticize bal thakaray in maharastra,CPM in bengal?.
they must have made their share of mistakes(gandhi gave nod to partition and china attacked from behind when nehru was chanting hindi chini bhai bhai),but then to err is human.everybody admires one who dies for country but nobody wants him to be from his own home,may be from neighbourhood.so it is so easy to criticize others.i want to quote one line from the movie rang de basanti,"desh ki safai mein apne haath gande kaun kare".
i want to finish with these lines of theodore roosevelt-"it is not the critic who counts,not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled,or where the doer of deeds could have done better.the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood,who strives valiantly,who errs and comes short again and again,who knows the great enthusiasms,the great devotions,and spends himself in a worthy cause,who at best knows in the end the triumphs of high achievement and who at the worst,if he fails,at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat".