Q: I'm, like, heard that Gandhi was, like, this really peaceful guy, and I want to learn more about him. Where should I go?
A: Ask the people in the Warsaw Ghetto how they'd have done if they "passively resisted" the Nazis. Oh, wait. They would have gotten massacred to a man, woman and child. Oops.
His "pacifism" did impede the Allied efforts in Asia during WWII, so you can hold him responsible for prolonging that.
Q: But didn't he, like, make India a better place, while keeping all the really groovy customs?
A: Only if you don't ask the opinions of Muslims, Sikhs and the Untouchable castes, and they're still into suttee over there.
Q: How about his personal life? Aren't hand-sewn dhotis cool?
A: Apart from his lousy fashion sense, I suppose his personal life is pretty cool if you think drinking piss, beating your wife and being the kind of "chaste" that involves a harem of prepubescent girls "to keep you warm at night" is.