Parents do the funniest things..

There was once a baby boy born in India, his name was Ramachandra. His parents had had 3 sons before him who had all died at a very young age, and a daughter who hadn't. So his parents (believing that there sons were all cursed) who must have taken a good, twenty-twenty minutes deciding, took the only logical option with their new born son... They dressed him as baby girl, pierced his nose and gave him a nose ring. They treated him as a girl for several years until they had another son. This earned they boy the nick name 'Nathuram' literally meaning, Ram with a nose ring. He later grew up to assassinate Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, aka Mahatma Gandhi (or Gandhi to his best friend Michael J. Fox).

Ramchandra 'Nathuram' Godse was charged with another man Narayan Apte for Gandhi’s death, after Apte had predicted it using his self proclaimed 'expert' future prediction. He claimed that by murdering Gandhi, India and Pakistan would be 'MAGICALLY' reunified.

OK so here’s where it gets so interesting, you may possibly have to pick you jaw up off the floor. Ramachandra Godse is an anagram for "Chased Mandragora", Mandragora is the Latin name for the Mandrake plant, a plant that has long since been considered to posses MAGICAL properties.

So here's my theory (and yes it is mine I didn’t steal it) Apte thought that because Godse's name can be rearranged to spell the name of 'magical' plant, that was the magic that would reunite India with Pakistan. I can only imagine the "chased" bit referred to Gandhi running away before being shot, 3 times, at point blank range, using (WAIT FOR IT)

A GUN MADE FROM A MANDRAKE PLANT*

CASE CLOSED

*this part of the story may or may not be true but it finish it off nicely