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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...
Soon after saying his customary dawn prayers, Mahatma Gandhi emerged from his ashram to greet a crowd of thousands gathered to witness the start of his latest and most defiant protest against the "curse" of British rule. A volunteer band raised its horns and, it was reported, blared a few bars of God Save the King before it apparently dawned on the musicians that a rousing salute to the English sovereign was not the most appropriate send-off. Their fading notes were overtaken by the sound of coconuts being smashed together, a traditional Hindu sign of devotion...
...Gujarat, the birthplace of the mahatma, is a proudly pious state where alcohol is banned and vegetarianism extolled. Modi is expected to win the elections there handily. But there are some signs of a backlash, of public revulsion at what has occurred since February. "It was a doomed, horrible time and best forgotten," laments a shopkeeper in Ahmadabad, who admits to running with a mob that killed 83 people in the neighborhood of Naroda. "I think everyone lost all sense. Muslims were killed, but in the end we all suffered...
Mohandas Gandhi and Dhirubhai Ambani were the two most famous scions of the Modh Bania, a Hindu commercial caste based in the arid Saurashtra peninsula of India's western Gujarat state. The Mahatma idealized traditional village ways, passive resistance, and homespun cotton. Ambani, a billionaire industrialist, preached prosperity to a burgeoning Indian middle-class via a business empire built on polyester...
Consider Ahmed El-Gaili ’98, a student at Harvard Law School, who wrote a recent article, “Towards Moral Resistance,” for the Jordan Times. In the article, Gaili advocates the nonviolent protest methods employed so successfully by Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. “Some Palestinians have tried to show the moral supremacy of their cause by responding in-kind to Israeli terror and targeting civilians inside Israel’s borders,” Gaili writes. “Such attacks must be condemned on political, moral, religious...