Gandhi - Who is that dude?

I had huge fights with my frens on the topics related to Gandhi, his influence on Indian freedom, Non violence.
This is my take on Gandhi, He is a great leader to follow, He is a very true person, You can see it from his autobiography the way he has divulged lots of things about his life, Which he could have easily hidden it. He follows his principles which are rather very tough to follow than say.

At the same time I would say that he had very less influence on Indian freedom, Indian freedom would have come anyway even without Gandhi becuase of Second World War and I doubt we would have got freedom without that. And he made a terrible mistake of making Nehru as the prime minister of India when there are very able leaders who could have led India better. And other thing I would hate him for that he has imposed some of his convictions on ppl even though they are dumb.