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...past couple of months, as speculation has turned to the possibility of an early election, Mayawati has held a series of rallies around the country and has begun testing her political weight, perhaps to see how far she can go. On March 31, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi criticized Mayawati for not running Uttar Pradesh properly. Yet on her birthday, both Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was in China at the time, had made sure to call Mayawati to wish her well. After all, they might need her support in a matter of months...
...have not been so harsh as yesterday," she says. "They say it is a matter of public security but these kinds of things we consider baseless. The protesters were peaceful and fully trained in non-violent protest. We are just following the father of the nation of India [Mahatma Gandhi...
...from grace, separates us from God. The new list is about what separates us from one another; it makes abstract the failings that once were intimate and in the process may make sin smaller, not bigger or more relevant. Private faith already speaks to public duty, as Mohandas Gandhi suggested with his version of the seven deadly sins: "Wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, science without humanity, knowledge without character, politics without principle, commerce without morality and worship without sacrifice." The responsibility rests with the individual, but that includes the duty to take care of others as well as your...
...hard to argue with somebody who won't argue. It's almost like there's an unspoken analogy at work between Gandhi's nonviolence and Baker's noncommentary: Baker declines to take up arms in support of his thesis, as if to do so would be to commit rhetorical violence against the facts. But facts, even tragic ones, require context and interpretation. They don't speak for themselves. That's why we need historians...
...should have happened. He shows us a vain, bloodthirsty Winston Churchill overeager to wage war and not overly particular about bombing civilians. He shows us Franklin D. Roosevelt turning away European refugees and baiting the Japanese before Pearl Harbor. As a counterweight, Baker spotlights international pacifist movements, with Mohandas Gandhi as their principal spokesperson. Ultimately Baker appears to be making the argument that no violence is ever justifiable, even in self-defense, and that, in Gandhi's words, "Hitlerism and Churchillism are in fact the same thing. The difference is only one of degree...