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...cultures is more important than learning about those in the East, he should realize that in this age of Coca Cola stalls in Bangladesh and martial arts films dominating Hollywood box offices, the cultures of the two hemispheres are inseparable. Furthermore, to suggest that the teachings of Mohandas K. Gandhi were not the primary inspiration for the political philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. would be to call King himself a liar. Confucius wrote of the perils of a foolish consistency more than 2,000 years before Emerson set foot on the Earth and wrote the same...
Well, Stuart knows nothing about politics. Although he likes Mahatma Gandhi, because he heard he had an eating disorder. But I don't think I have had trouble being taken seriously. Although Fox in its complaint was doing everything it could to discredit my bona fides...
...first four decades after India gained independence from Britain in 1947, its socialist-leaning leadership, fearful of domination by foreigners, walled off its economy from global markets, using high tariffs and stiff entry barriers. An ideology favoring small cottage industries, fostered by no less a figure than Mohandas Gandhi, led the government to tie up private enterprise in a web of regulations, nicknamed the License Raj, that shifted economic power to inept bureaucrats. Foreign companies pushing their way in often found that only a few people had the cash to buy their products. But by 1991, with its economy stalling...
...After the war, with the founding of the Magnum photo agency, he and his cohorts divided the world among themselves. At first, Cartier-Bresson got India and Southeast Asia, but over the next three decades, on assignment for Life, Paris Match and other magazines, he traveled without bounds, documenting Gandhi's funeral, the Berlin Wall, the deserts of Egypt, and China during the fall of the Kuomintang. Along the way he stopped long enough to take exceptional portraits of Jean-Paul Sartre, Picasso, Colette, Matisse, Ezra Pound and Alberto Giacometti. "De qui s'agit-il?" is at the BNF until...
...horror was to come: refugee camps everywhere and, eventually, war with Pakistan over Kashmir, an enmity, potent as nuclear bombs, that lasts to this day. Five months after independence, the idealism of the struggle for freedom was shattered when a Hindu fanatic assassinated the movement's secular saint, Mohandas Gandhi. --By Howard Chua-Eoan