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...military strongmen. After finally making it to the Blue House, he wasted no time in launching a peace offensive and flying to Pyongyang in June 2000 for a historic summit. At the awards ceremony in Oslo last October, the chairman of the Nobel committee compared Kim to Mandela and Gandhi...
...does have a good historical record of succeeding where violence fails, where violence merely begets further violence, in the same fatal way that dictators beget revolutions that beget more dictators. If the demonstrators are to succeed, they would do best to adopt the non-violent methods of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. But there is, as yet, no one leader or organization capable of disciplining the ragtag, centrifugal anti-globalist demonstrators to nonviolence; and there is no coherent agenda. It's hard to predict what will happen, except that institutions like the World Bank...
...have grown to feel that he is in some ways like Gandhi. Gandhi's first book, Indian Home Rule, published in South Africa in 1909 when he was 40, is full of religious idiocies. No one would have prophesied a future for him. But he had in a heightened way Narayan's mystical idea of an eternal India; and look what happened to him. Narayan, with his glories and limitations, is the Gandhi of modern Indian literature...
...spiritual and saw conspiracies everywhere. She adored the crowds that flocked to her rallies and gave her the affection she craved. But it is hard to discern from this book whether she was strongly principled or just enjoyed power. "History," according to Frank, "is not going to remember Indira Gandhi for any one thing?for a coherent strategy, ideology, policy or vision." This is not a political biography. And anyone who turns to it thinking they will see a picture of how Indian politics works will find it lacking. But as a picture of one woman, driven by her perception...
...What has upset the censorious mob are those passages that show the lonely Indira Gandhi to be a woman of deep passion who, as a teenager, fell in love with her future husband Feroze Gandhi. Free from her family, she had an affair with him in Europe that lasted several years before they married, against her family's wishes, back in India. She was further plagued by rumors and gossip about other affairs when her marriage to the womanizing Gandhi fell apart, including an alleged fling with Nehru's private secretary O.M. Mathai. Frank does not give a definitive...