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...center, both a memorial to her husband and a training center on the methods and techniques of non-violent change, contains the papers of both Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi, and hosts lectures, symposia and theatrical productions geared to teach problem solving through non-violent means...
...Delhi, the Pontiff met for 20 minutes with the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader. The brightest moment seemed to be a visit to the sacred shrine of Rajghat. There, at the black marble slab that marks the spot where Mahatma Gandhi's remains were cremated, the Pope paid glowing tribute to India's apostle of nonviolence...
...Dickie is accustomed to being patient. He has wanted to do another musical ever since 1969, when he mixed song and satire in his first film, Oh! What a Lovely War, but got sidetracked by the making of Gandhi. Looking back, Attenborough claims that filming the epic of the Mahatma was simplicity itself compared with telling the backstage story of Broadway gypsies. "If you're controlling a crowd of 250,000, it's logistics to a large degree," he observes. "You have the ambience of the plains of India and the slums of Delhi working for you. Here...
...with destiny," a pledge to "awaken to life and freedom." It is time for us to redeem that pledge once again. The belief in freedom and independence that was so much live on in the hearts and minds of the people of India. The lamp that was lit by Mahatma Gandhi and Jawarharlal Nehru must...
...begat Jawaharlal, who served for 17 years as the first Prime Minister of independent India. Jawaharlal begat Indira, who ruled for 16 of the 20 years of the post-Nehru era and, through her marriage, became the namesake, though not a relation, of the country's spiritual conscience, Mahatma Gandhi. Indira, known to many in the nation as Amma (mother), begat Rajiv and then Sanjay. When the prodigal younger son and heir apparent died in a plane crash in 1980, his brother Rajiv, almost inevitably, took his place. "Indira believed that the House of Nehru was what India needed...