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...TIME's inclusion of Sonia Gandhi was interesting. Her influence largely emanates from her renouncing power and allowing economist Manmohan Singh to become Prime Minister; staying in the background has enabled her to look after party affairs. It is her sphinxlike silence, dignified conduct and adoption of Indian culture that are largely responsible for her repeated re-election to Parliament by record margins. But Gandhi should act more assertively and deliver government change more speedily to the common man. Jagmohan Manchanda, New Delhi...
...India should be proud that TIME included Gandhi among the world's 100 most influential people, leaving behind even Bush. Gandhi follows in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi by refusing the post of Prime Minister. Though of foreign origin, she is far better than the many Indian politicians who use politics to mint money from corruption. Madhu Agrawal, Dariba, India
...crisis is worst in Vidarbha, an orange- and cotton-growing region in central India famed for its black soil and the fact that Mahatma Gandhi built an ashram and lived there for a time in the 1930s. Now Indians know it as their nation's rural suicide capital. According to Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti, or Vidarbha People's Protest Forum, an activist group that keeps track of farmer suicides in the area and lobbies the government for help, more than 1,250 farmers committed suicide in Vidarbha's six central districts alone in 2006, up from...
...talking about what really matters to him? Would he seem too squishy? These days he improvises, giving freer rein to matters of the heart and spirit than he ever could as a candidate. He draws from a number of faiths, from philosophy and self-help and poetry and from Gandhi's concept of truth force, the idea that people have an innate ability to recognize the most powerful truths. He often cites an African proverb that says, "If you wish to go quickly, go alone. If you wish to go far, go together." Then he builds on it. "We have...
...wartime India, en route to Britain from naval duty, British architect Laurie Baker met Mahatma Gandhi, who challenged him to return after the war to help house India's poor. In 1945, Baker did. Using mud, brick and other local materials, he engineered innovative, exuberant structures, many with pierced brick screens that dappled light and cooled rooms with natural air movement. Baker's low-cost, eco-friendly style, which became known as the "Baker method," inspired an organization of younger Indian architects that has, since the '80s, built homes for more than 10,000 poor families...