Happy Birthday Mohandas Gandhi

[garybeck]

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non-violence—which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi (Sanskrit: महात्मा mahātmā or "Great Soul", an honorific first applied to him by Rabindranath Tagore), and in India also as Bapu (Gujarati: Gujarati: બાપુ, bāpu or "Father"). He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International Day of Non-Violence.

[truebrit71]

1. Holy Cow!!!

:evilgrin:

[KansDem]

2. Check out Google today!

[BlooInBloo]

9. Bah. That's 30 seconds of screenshotting I'll never get back.

:P

[Algorem]

3. keynote address by Congressman Dennis Kucinich.

Cleveland prepares for Gandhi's 140th birthday
http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/news_article.aspx?storyid=122454&catid=3#
Dick Russ Updated: 10/2/2009 12:56:38 PM Posted: 9/29/2009 3:33:15 PM
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CLEVELAND -- A diverse cross-section of the community in Northeast Ohio is making plans to celebrate the 140th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, acknowleged as one of the giants of the 20th century.


The celebration will center on a program to be held Saturday, October 3, at the MLK Branch of the Cleveland Public Library on Stokes Boulevard in University Circle.

The program, which begins at 2 p.m., will feature an audio/video presentation called "Gandhi's Life as his Message," and a keynote address by Congressman Dennis Kucinich.

A panel will then discuss "Gandhi for Me in Today's Times."...

[truedelphi]

6. And of course, Kucinich aides promise that

Ghandi bars will be offered to all attendees...




(Sorry - I just couldn't resist!)

[Best_man23]

4. Happy Birthday Gandhiji

[Paper Roses]

5. Good Grief, I did not realize he was that old. Then again, I forget

how old I am.

Happy birthday to one of the most important men of this century or for all time.

I remember reading about you as a young child. At the time, I did not appreciate how sage your comments were.

The world is not a better place now. I'm sorry we did not listen.

Happy Birthday, and to your followers, keep believing and maybe someday, the world will listen.

[truedelphi]

7. Your hopes are exactly the same as mine.

:toast: to you, and Ghandi, and all his believers.

[LaydeeBug]

8. wasn't he really racist?

this is what I've heard.

[BOG PERSON]

10. Super-racist, in awe of the white man, drank his own pee...

As a South Asian, I don't care for him. YMMV.

http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/sagar/spring.1994/leah.renold.art.html

[Posteritatis]

11. In the early twentieth century? My god! Inconceivable! (nt)

[garybeck]

13. OMG.... watch the film. or read his biography. n/t

[struggle4progress]

16. From the ANC's website: Gandhi and South Africa

... In 1928, commenting on a report that some Indians in South Africa favoured separation from Africans in education, Gandhiji wrote in Young India on April 5, 1928: "Indians have too much in common with the Africans to think of isolating themselves from them. They cannot exist in South Africa for any length of time without the active sympathy and friendship of the Africans. I am not aware of the general body of the Indians having ever adopted an air of superiority towards their African brethren, and it would be a tragedy if any such movement were to gain ground among the Indian settlers of South Africa" ...

He told the Reverend S. S. Tema, a member of the African National Congress, in an interview on January 1, 1939: "The Indians are a microscopic minority. They can never be a menace to the white population. You, on the other hand, are the sons of the soil who are being robbed of your inheritance. You are bound to resist that. Yours is a far bigger issue. It ought not to be mixed up with that of the Indian. This does not preclude the establishment of the friendliest relations between the two races."

As sentiment for unity grew among the Africans and Indians, Gandhiji revised his views. He showed no hesitation in supporting Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo, a leader of NEUF, in his efforts to build unity of Indians and Africans in resistance to unjust laws, warning only that the movement should remain strictly non-violent ...

In May 1947, when Dr. Yusuf Dadoo and Dr. G. M. Naicker, the Presidents of the Transvaal and Natal Indian Congresses, visited him in India after signing a pact of cooperation with the African National Congress, he gave them a message in which he said: "Political cooperation among all exploited races in South Africa can only result in mutual good if wisely directed" ...

http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/people/gandhi/gandhisa.html

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12. .

[BOG PERSON]

14. Putin on Gandhi

“Of course, I am a pure and absolute democrat,” he said. “But you know what the problem is – not a problem, a real tragedy – that I am alone. There are no such pure democrats in the world. Since Mahatma Gandhi, there has been no one.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1878792.ece

[SalmonChantedEvening]

15. Blessings Bapu. n/t