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Mohandas
Karamchand GANDHI (1869-1948) |
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A photo gallery: Gandhi lived one
of the
extraordinary lives of our century (and surely of any century); who
else
would call his autobiography *The
Story of My Experiments with Truth*? |
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The stages of his life are here
treated
in a series of small vignettes surrounding a central image, as in
similar
posters depicting the life of Krishna |
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He was depicted as Krishna lifting
Mount
Govardhan, sheltering other Congress leaders while playing his
seductive
flute-- and shown as other deities too |
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Gandhi was an irresistible subject
for political
cartoonists, and for journalists in general |
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Gandhi was also depicted as a
universal
religious-cultural-political synthesizer |
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When Gandhi chose spinning, he was
consciously
and astutely reinterpreting one of the common tasks of poor women all
over
India |
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His minimal clothing was also a
public sign
of solidarity with the poor and his commitment to (idealized) village
life |
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One of his most prominent Western
followers
was Mirabehn (formerly Madeleine Slade), who was deeply committed to
his
program |
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After his *assassination* 1n
1948, Gandhi's ashes were entombed at Rajghat in New Delhi, and lit
by an eternal flame |
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M. F. Husain interprets Gandhi
hieratically,
as an austere figure in the lineage of the Buddha |
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Richard Attenborough interprets
Gandhi commercially,
through a British actor of part-Indian ancestry named Ben Kingsley |
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Special commemorative attention
has been
given to the famous Salt March of 1930 |
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Would Gandhi have liked being on
rupee notes,
and elsewhere? (There even used to be a "Gandhiji Bar and Grill" in
Manhattan) |
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