India declares five days of mourning for 'Gandhian' Mandela
so all of these countries honoring Mandela are wrong and the teabaggers are the only ones who know the truth ? another thing is you have political parties that are liberal to conservative in other countries honoring Mandela.
< India on Friday declared five days of national mourning for former South African president Nelson Mandela, who was hailed as a "true Gandhian" and a "great friend" by the country's leaders.
Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi had his political baptism in South Africa after arriving there in 1893, with his experience of racism in the country shaping his future political activism back home.
India was also the first country to sever trade relations with the apartheid regime in Pretoria back in the 1940s.
Gopalkrishna Gandhi, the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, said the world had "lost a beam of light" with Mandela's death.
"Mandela could have become president for life but (he) wanted to be an agent of change and that is what he wanted to be remembered for," he told India's CNN-IBN news network.>
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