Word: gandhian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much loved daughter of her father, a mother to her two sons, a savior of the oppressed people of Bangladesh, military leader of the Indian army, writer, intellectual, stateswoman, politician, party-leader, tyrant, dictator and leader of the largest democracy in the world. We saw her as a Gandhian, dressed in "khadi," or handspun cloth, tirelessly travelling through the villages of India. We saw her at the White House, resplendent in her brocades, charming President Kennedy. We saw her as an international leader of the non-aligned movement and the Commonwealth of Nations. We saw her haggard face...
...grasp the paradoxes of his troubled land. "South Africa," he notes in 1963, "needs to be loved now, when it is at its ugliest, more than at any other time." Fugard expresses his own love by stubbornly remaining at home, and by using drama as a form of Gandhian nonviolent resistance. That commitment has inevitably entangled him in a series of controversies. When leading British dramatists persist in boycotting South Africa with their plays, Fugard vehemently contends in 1968 that it is better to confront the regime with its sins than to remain silent. When ideology beckons, he recoils, resolving...