"Been reppin' and respectin' Mahatma since I was little tyke."
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Mahatma Gandhi also epitomized trust among all sections of society.
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Inappropriated: The Toy Gandhi Memories of the Mahatma Through Oct.
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Previous winners have ranged from Mahatma Gandhi to Adolf Hitler.
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The Mahatma, or great soul, does not emerge as a saint.
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To celebrate Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birthday, India is praying for peace.
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Personalities depicted there include David Bowie, Mahatma Gandhi, and Carrie FIsher.
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It's official — Liza Koshy won Halloween with her Mahatma Gandhi costume.
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YouTube star Liza Koshy dressed as Anna Wintour and Mahatma Gandhi.
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However, as I have noted elsewhere, Mahatma Gandhi and the Rev.
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The values are rooted in Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of principled nonviolence.
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That stoicism won her comparisons to Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela.
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It's often attributed to Mahatma Gandhi, but he actually never said that.
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Both of them borrowed heavily from Mahatma Gandhi and [Henry David] Thoreau.
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Bezos began his trip with a visit to the tomb of Mahatma Gandhi.
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This just so happens to be the week of Mahatma Gandhi's 149th birthday.
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"You gave us Gandhi; we gave you the Mahatma," Nelson Mandela famously said.
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New 500- and 2,000-rupee notes were issued featuring a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi.
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Lay down your sword and "fight" using (Libra) Mahatma Gandhi's approach of passive resistance.
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Ben Kingsley won an Oscar for playing Mahatma Gandhi in the 1982 film "Gandhi."
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He points to Mahatma Gandhi, a great messenger, who wasn't a particularly great speaker.
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HIDDEN behind the fashion boutiques of Mahatma Gandhi Marg in Lucknow is an architectural gem.
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Mahatma Gandhi famously fasted 17 times throughout his bid to liberate India from colonial rule.
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Meanwhile, YouTuber and former Vine star Liza Koshy posted her Halloween interpretation of Mahatma Gandhi.
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The reputation of Mahatma Gandhi, though he was no less a hybrid, survived the change.
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The plan was accepted by Mr. Jinnah but was wrecked by the revered Mahatma Gandhi.
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YouTube star Liza Koshy dressed up as Mahatma Gandhi for Halloween, and she really nailed it.
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We must be, to paraphrase Mahatma Gandhi, the change we wish to see in the world.
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Although still angry at Israelis, she began reading the writings of Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela.
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Beloved politicians like Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. were all assassinated.
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On Tuesday, Bezos also paid his respects to a memorial of Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi.
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There's also an intaglio printing of Mahatma Gandhi's portrait, as well as the Ashoka Pillar emblem.
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He can be compared to Mahatma Gandhi and to Marie Curie because he belonged to everybody.
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Statues of famous men in the square include those of Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela.
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Hence the genuine, though in some ways unnatural, alliance between the Indian Prime Minister and the Mahatma.
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Fine print urges customers to buy Indian so as to realise Mahatma Gandhi's dream of self-reliance.
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MAHATMA GANDHI would not have enjoyed Texfair 215 in Coimbatore in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
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Wednesday marks what would have been Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birthday — Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869.
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Maliwal is staging her strike at Rajghat, a memorial for Mahatma Gandhi, leader of India's independence movement.
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India features only Mahatma Gandhi on every denomination, South Africa only Nelson Mandela, and China only Mao Zedong.
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In a campaign Q&A, Mr Giammattei named Mahatma Gandhi as the world figure he admires the most.
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Think Mahatma Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr. Regrettably, courage is also rare: think Gandhi or MLK again.
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IN 22.7 Mahatma Gandhi ridiculed the idea that India might have universal primary education "inside of a century".
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He says Mr Modi is simply "sentimentally attached" to South Africa because of the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi.
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Far from being a paragon of virtue, the Mahatma remained until his death a restless work in progress.
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Mahatma Gandhi tamed the anger of a nation and taught it to fight for justice with nonviolent noncooperation.
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Nussbaum cites Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela in her account of protest without payback.
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"Mahatma Gandhi firmly believed that India's freedom will remain incomplete so far Africa remained in bondage," he said.
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Yogananda accepted the property and constructed a temple, a meditation garden and a peace memorial to Mahatma Gandhi.
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But the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is not proving sufficient help in Bundelkhand, local people say.
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The walls and the dusty portraits of Mahatma Gandhi and Indian politicians that adorned them were flecked with it.
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The R.S.S., a Hindu nationalist organization, was founded in 1925 as a muscular alternative to Mahatma Gandhi's freedom movement.
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Each state sees it different: Gujarat, the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi (a noted teetotaller), banned it entirely in 1961.
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You've probably heard of Mahatma Gandhi, the loincloth-clad man who fronted India's fight for independence from the British.
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It has been banned thrice since Independence, including after the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi by former member Nathuram Godse.
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" Mahatma Gandhi famously proclaimed, "The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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Known as the Mahatma (an honorific meaning "great soul"), he became famous worldwide as a practitioner of nonviolent resistance.
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Krishen Khanna's "News of Gandhiji's Death" (1948) provides a striking sociopolitical image of India immediately following Mahatma Gandhi's assassination.
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Eleven men are memorialized in London's historic Parliament Square, including Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln and Nelson Mandela.
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At the Sabarmati Ashram, the former home of India's independence hero Mahatma Gandhi, laborers watered lawns and painted walls.
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Mahatma Gandhi visited Juhu during the freedom struggle and visitors can find a statue of him by the beach.
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Gandhi was born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi -- he wasn't known as the title Mahatma, which translates to "Great Soul," until 1914.
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In court that year, he referenced how Mahatma Gandhi used the same mode of protest during the nation's independence struggle.
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Congress, the party of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, led India for all but 12 years between 1947 and 2014.
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Others who were nominated but did not receive the prize include Mahatma Gandhi, Pope Francis, Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Putin.
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His daughter, Indira Gandhi, and grandson, Rajiv Gandhi (no relation to Mahatma Gandhi), both went on to be prime minister.
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He went from the airport to the Ashram where Mahatma Gandhi, the father of Indian independence, lived from 1917-1930.
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The square also features the hunching figure of Winston Churchill, as well as Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela.
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From Julius Caesar to Mahatma Gandhi, world leaders, activists, and Russian spies have been assassinated for a variety of reasons.
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Mahatma Gandhi was an activist who fought for civil rights, India's independence, and religious freedom by practicing non-violent protests.
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The simplest acts of kindness, Mahatma Gandhi once said, are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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The Nobel Peace Prize is probably the most controversial Nobel of all —and not just because Mahatma Gandhi never got one.
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The courtroom is built with the bricks of the Old Fort prison, where both Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi were held.
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Rustin's activist philosophy was shaped in part by the pacifism of his grandmother's Quaker faith and the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
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Mahatma Gandhi, modern India's founding father, thought the growth of cities was "an evil thing, unfortunate for mankind and the world".
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Martin Luther King Jr. violated the law, as did Rosa Parks, Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi and every single Founding Father.
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An urn containing the ashes of Indian civil rights leader Mahatma Gandhi was stolen on the 150th anniversary of his birth.
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According to Mahatma Gandhi to Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, Gandhi wrote this letter on August 29, 1947, months before he was assassinated.
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As things drift away at the end, quotations from Mahatma Gandhi and Wayne Shorter turn an eye toward shared inspiration. RUSSONELLO
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There's a reason for it: October 2 is the 150th birthday celebration of Mohandas K. Gandhi, also known as the Mahatma.
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I am lucky to get this invaluable opportunity to celebrate a global icon like Mahatma Gandhi through the medium of crosswords.
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Naidu, a former BJP president, will face opposition nominee Gopalkrishna Gandhi, a grandson of independence hero Mahatma Gandhi, in an Aug.
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Ambedkar, whose work in the West was eclipsed by Mahatma Gandhi's fame, has become a unifying personality of modern-day India.
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I don't know of anyone who tried more conscientiously to follow the Sermon on the Mount than Mahatma Gandhi, a Hindu.
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Indian schoolchildren with their heads shaved and dressed like Mahatma Gandhi assemble during an event at a school in Chennai on Oct.
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Of the 11 famous political figures there, including Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela, and Mahatma Gandhi, not a single one was a woman.
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In one particularly busy area of the city, along Mahatma Gandhi Road, a major highway, there are some 140 now-shuttered bars.
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He was gazing at the back wall of the shop, and, completely out of the blue, he said something about Mahatma Gandhi.
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Kasturba Gandhi (1869 - 21990) "I learned the lesson of non-violence from my wife," Mohandas Gandhi, better known as Mahatma Gandhi, once said.
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Frustrated, the sisters decided to start a hunger strike -- a decision inspired by trip to India and a visit to Mahatma Ghandi's house.
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The ashes of Mahatma Gandhi were stolen from the Bapu Bhawan memorial in Pradesh, central India on the 150th anniversary of his birth.
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Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of India's independence movement and a prominent pacifist, never won despite being nominated five times from 1937 to 1948.
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Then, she said, her uncle told her to pack a suitcase and they spent a few weeks traveling and marching with Mahatma Gandhi.
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These complaints follow a recent report which claimed that some newly issued Rs 2,000 notes didn't have Mahatma Gandhi's image printed on them.
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On the book's cover, a stony-faced Hitler is featured alongside Barack Obama, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and India's prime minister, Narendra Modi.
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His inspiration came from Mahatma Gandhi, said Dr. Rajagopal, who in 2014 won a global award from Human Rights Watch for his activism.
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Friedman described Indians in "Free to Choose" as deluded followers of Mahatma Gandhi, idly spinning cotton in cottage industries subsidized by the state.
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This brought it into conflict with the Indian National Congress of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, who argued that they represented all Indians.
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That year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, who considered sanitation to be sacred and "more important than political freedom".
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" He extoled the ideals of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, saying: "India&aposs freedom will remain incomplete so long as Africa remains in bondage.
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Kohn and Jones both say they're informed by a historical view—by the nonviolence of leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi.
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As a captive, Mr. Mandela was kin to Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi and other leaders who worked to overthrow racism and colonialism.
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Charlotte Perriand: Inventing a New World continues at Fondation Louis Vuitton (8, Avenue du Mahatma Gandhi, Bois de Boulogne, Paris, France) through February 24.
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Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth, by Mahatma Gandhi: The subtitle is "My Experiments With Truth"; there's something that always got me.
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Both Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi spoke of love for humankind as integral to their work, and it remains essential to organizers today.
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The Indian Economic Survey weighs the pros and cons of universal basic income through the lens of what Mahatma Gandhi might have said about it.
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Cows are not the only issue over which Congress has strayed from the path set by its best-known leaders, Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.
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The recognizable uniform is thought to have originally been purchased from a store on Kolkata's famous Mahatma Gandhi Road (then Harrison Road) back in 1948.
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Yet several temples were dedicated to the would-be goddess, including one in the holy city of Varanasi opened in 1936 by Mahatma Gandhi himself.
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ANDREW OKSNERCampanile LLCHong Kong Mahatma Gandhi's championing of hand-woven cloth was not, as you suggest, because of opposition to industrialisation ("Southern comfort", May 28th).
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"An inspiring visit to the hearth of one of humanity's great prophets of inspiration - Mahatma Gandhi", Netanyahu and his wife wrote in the guest book.
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According to Mahatma: Life of Gandhi 1869-1948, Gandhi said this in response to a journalist's question about what his message to the world was.
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A considerable remainder of time is then devoted to analyzing the meeting's daily inspirational quote, which for that day happened to be from Mahatma Gandhi.
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In its 16th year, the theme for the 2019 edition was a celebration of Mahatma Gandhi's life and work, to commemorate his sesquicentennial birth anniversary.
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They were inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, who helped galvanize mass resistance to British rule in India in the 23s with a 2000-mile protest march.
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Mahatma Ghandi, who successfully helped India gain political independence from Britain in 1947, was killed by a Hindu extremist on the way to evening prayers.
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As a member of the Nehru household, she grieved beside the bodies of Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, all of whom were assassinated.
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He first drew support from the traditional Pashtun areas along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, but became closely allied with Mahatma Gandhi's Congress Party in the 1930s.
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Indian students throws rose flower petals over a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi on his 71st death anniversary, at Marina Beach in Chennai, India, on Jan. 30.
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The president and first lady will travel to the capital, New Delhi, and Ahmedabad, Modi's home state, which played a central role in Mahatma Ghandi's life.
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He celebrated modern India's "founding fathers," specifically naming Mahatma Gandhi, whose vision of a diverse, pluralistic India has long been anathema to Hindu nationalists like Modi.
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Mahatma Gandhi may have pioneered peaceful protest, winning India's independence by shaming its British rulers, but successive Indian governments have paid scant notice to Ms Sharmila.
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She reflected again on what she heard and saw this week after learning of the Las Vegas massacre on Monday, which was also Mahatma Gandhi's birthday.
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At the time of his death in 1950, Patel was described by The Times as part of "India's idolized triumvirate" alongside Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.
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But a statue of Mohandas Gandhi in a Delhi park seemed girded for the struggle ahead: Antipollution campaigners had fitted the mahatma with a respirator mask.
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On December 19, I partook in a protest at Gowalia Tank Maidan -- the same park from which Mahatma Gandhi started the Quit India Movement in 1942.
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Daniel Buren's installation "Observatory of Light" is on long-term view at the Fondation Louis Vuitton (8 Avenue du Mahatma Gandhi, Bois de Boulogne, 16th Arrondissement, Paris).
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There are diapers on the floor and books by Mahatma Gandhi, the late leader of India's independence movement, and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on the shelf.
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After abandoning the principles of Mahatma Gandhi to take up armed struggle, Nelson Mandela and the ANC ultimately prevailed by embracing nonviolent civil resistance and political negotiations.
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It wouldn't surprise me if Indian activists launch a "Quit India" movement to expel Facebook from India, modeled on Mahatma Gandhi's efforts against the British in 1942.
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Fawcett is the first woman to be commemorated at the site, where she joins the company of 11 men, including Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela, and Mahatma Gandhi.
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Vandals scrawled pro-ISIS slogans and messages threatening an terrorist attack on a public sculpture of Mahatma Gandhi in the small city of Dudu in northwestern India.
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Thakur stirred fresh controversy on Thursday when she called the right-wing Hindu, Nathuram Godse, who killed India's independence hero Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi in 1948, a patriot.
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In 2014, he painted a large mural of India's national leader Mahatma Gandhi on the Delhi Police headquarters building but his theme this year is quite different.
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France's Charles de Gaulle, India's Mahatma Gandhi, and Israel's David Ben-Gurion all led nationalist movements that won widespread admiration as they steered their people to freedom.
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Peacock's Tears I grew up in India hearing about Mahatma Gandhi and when I think about myths it is his bald, bespectacled head that comes to mind.
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Most laborers, whether they operate looms, drive trucks, wash clothes or haul bricks, are paid in stacks of soft rupee notes, Mahatma Gandhi's face on each one.
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As political inspiration, he cites his grandfather, a member of Mahatma Gandhi's freedom movement in the 1940s who was jailed for four years before becoming a parliamentarian.
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And on the very fringes of the Empire, Mahatma Gandhi in 1904 discovered the seeds for his campaign of self-reliance and resistance in that same book.
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"There is no policy for mandatory use of a photograph of Mahatma Gandhiji on the calendar," said V.K. Saxena, the commission's chairman, in a statement on Friday.
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The bloody event marked a turning point in India's modern history and was the prelude to Mahatma Gandhi's commitment to Indian nationalism and the fight for independence.
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The underdog is represented by the likes of Lance Armstrong, Donald Trump and North Korea, but curiously not by Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela or Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Egon Schiele is on view at Foundation Louis Vuitton (8, avenue du Mahatma Gandhi, Bois de Boulogne) through January 14, 2019, curated by Suzanne Pagé and Dieter Buchhart.
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The assassins of Abraham Lincoln and Mahatma Gandhi and John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King took the lives of great men but did not destroy their ideas.
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CARACAS, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Visitors to the headquarters of Venezuela's Popular Will party are greeted by large photos of global political heroes from Nelson Mandela to Mahatma Gandhi.
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Princess Kate gives William a helping hand, while looking at photos, text and mementos on display at the reception — including a scarf given to the Queen by Mahatma Gandhi.
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The group was an early supporter of Mahatma Gandhi, led India's industrialisation drive in the 1940s and played a big part in the IT-outsourcing revolution in the 210s.
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On January 30th 1948, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in Delhi, by a Hindu extremist opposed to his conciliatory policies towards the subcontinent's Muslims and overtures of peace to Pakistan.
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But they have been thwarted from within their own ranks by their own prophet and saint; it was he, the Mahatma himself, who became the arch-appeaser of Islam.
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The documentary at the beginning of the museum positions photographs of Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela with throngs of supporters beside photographs depicting Women's Marches in the United States.
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Nelson Mandela or Mahatma Gandhi, because I'm awed by leaders who embrace their resisters and create change over very long periods of time using patience and calm, peaceful protest.
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"Today Mahatma Gandhi is not among us, but the path that was truth that he showed us is still most appropriate," Mr. Modi said, using the honorific for Gandhi.
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Gorakhnath Temple had a tradition of militancy: Digvijay Nath, the head priest until 13, was arrested for exhorting Hindu militants to kill Mahatma Gandhi days before he was shot.
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However, as campaigning ended in the 2019 election, Thakur made headlines again when local media quoted her as calling the hardline Hindu who murdered independence leader Mahatma Gandhi a patriot.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has replaced independence hero Mahatma Gandhi as the 2017 face of the government's traditional handloom and cotton industry, triggering criticism on Friday.
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Indeed, the seven Bollywood actors, cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, former prime minister Indira Gandhi, father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi and Mr Modi reflect India's increasing prominence on the world stage.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the home of Mahatma Gandhi on Wednesday, saying modern India's founding father and promoter of peace was an inspiration for humanity.
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The museum had already featured Bollywood celebrities such as Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan, as well as political figures like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi.
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If I want a more peaceful, just, sustainable, healthier and happier world, then we have to be the change we want to see in the world, as Mahatma Gandhi said.
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"To be blunt, if we took Mark Zuckerberg out and we replaced him with Mahatma Gandhi, I don't think the corporation would change in any significant way," Mr. Lynn said.
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The student's detention under colonial-era laws, once used by British rulers to jail nationalist heroes such as Mahatma Gandhi, has exposed deep ideological differences about freedom of speech in India.
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The same erratic philosophy has been true of Carol and Morgan, two of the show's other original characters, who have alternated between the strategic approaches of Mahatma Gandhi and Genghis Khan.
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The concept of a "Hindu" India was largely shaped by nineteenth-century European Indologists, and it gained traction, along with competing nationalist ideologies like Mahatma Gandhi's, in response to British colonialism.
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But the Mahatma will remain, in his sublime madness, a consistently illuminating guide through the labyrinth of rational self-interest, and through our own decaying landscapes of liberalism and democracy. ♦
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In Volume 51 of the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi is interviewed in 1931 about the execution of Bhagat Singh, an Indian socialist revolutionary who was hanged at age 23.
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The following day they head to New Delhi to tour the home of famed Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi – including seeing the spot where he was assassinated on January 30, 1948.
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Fashion Street is on the western edge of Fort, along Mahatma Gandhi Road, flanking a big public park, Azad Maidan, and branching off into Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil Road to the south.
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Henry David Thoreau, the naturalist and abolitionist whose writings inspired Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., among others, held troubling but typical views about the inevitable demise of Native Americans.
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The opposition Congress Party, rooted in the secularism of Mahatma Gandhi, as well as smaller, regional political parties have warned of the dangers of altering long-standing secular laws and policies.
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A former civil servant, Mr. Kilicdaroglu, 69, has captured the imagination of many supporters with his mild manner and his insistence on a peaceful march, in the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi.
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"The best defence against these dirty weapons is peaceful, non-violent Satyagraha," he said in a tweet referring to the strategy of passive political resistance advocated by independence leader Mahatma Gandhi.
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LOS ANGELES — To understand how Andrew Garfield successfully made the leap from Spider-Man to holy man, it's helpful to know that when he was 753, his hero was Mahatma Gandhi.
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There are a number of films shot by Indians, including previously unseen footage of Mahatma Gandhi, filmed by his grandnephew Kanu Gandhi, during the activist's famous sojourn in Noakhali in 1947.
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Alongside Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel led India's freedom struggle as part of the Congress Party, which opposes the ruling Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Modi.
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"When there were riots in Delhi after Partition, Mahatma Gandhi said he would not leave the city until there is not a single Muslim child who would feel afraid here," he says.
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The three had been charged for their roles in promoting peaceful civil disobedience, partly inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and the ideas of Gene Sharp, an influential American theorist of nonviolent political movements.
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It lured opponents into violence that finally swayed the views of whites — a tactic similar to the playbook of Mahatma Gandhi in India, of forcing an oppressor to show his ugliest face.
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When asked in a recent interview with "60 Minutes" about his excessive lifestyle of expensive yachts, art and French mansion purchases, he retorted saying he was no Nelson Mandela or Mahatma Gandhi.
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That was the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, hero of both India's freedom struggle and its battle for better sanitation (which he once said was more important than political independence).
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Mahatma Gandhi had such a profound impact on the course of democracy in the United States, inspiring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and countless others fighting to build a fair and just society.
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Mohandas Gandhi (or as India knows him, the "father of the nation,") wasn't given the name "Mahatma" (great soul) until 1914, after he had built a reputation as a lawyer and social activist.
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At Florida, he decorated his dorm room with images of people like Mahatma Gandhi, Bob Marley, Harriet Tubman and Martin Luther King Jr. Fluent in several languages, he studied art, religion and history.
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The pair made sure to set aside three days for India, taking advantage of the sights and cultural traditions, which included a visit to lay a wreath at a memorial of Mahatma Gandhi.
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We talk about Mahatma Gandhi as the chief inspiration for Martin Luther King Jr. We are building pride in their identities, and they are generally surrounded by people who are affirming of that.
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There also is the story of Mahatma Gandhi's beloved Zenith pocket watch, a gift from Indira Nehru, that was stolen shortly before India's independence but returned by the remorseful thief several months later.
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To detractors, Churchill's views on the superiority of white people, his refusal to distribute wheat to starving people in India in 1943 and disparaging remarks about Mahatma Gandhi are evidence of a crueler statesman.
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The tour guides pointed out other surprising facts, including the racists attitudes of Mahatma Gandhi, who upheld the caste system in India and espoused disdain towards Black Africans during his time in South Africa.
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But worst of all, Thakur declared the man who assassinated Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi to be a "patriot" — a statement so controversial that the BJP was forced to intervene, asking Thakur to apologize.
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In a sweeping Independence Day address on August 15, Modi suggested that he would ban single-use plastic across the country from Wednesday, the 150th anniversary of the birth of independence leader Mahatma Gandhi.
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This might seem idealistic, but it should not be forgotten that it was because of the idealism of powerful individuals such as Woodrow Wilson, Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela that fundamental changes came true.
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He said plans are underway to build a Gandhi Heritage Centre in remembrance of India's independence movement leader Mahatma Gandhi in eastern Uganda, who lived in various African countries for more than two decades.
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Before appearing at the rally, Trump made a stop at the Sabarmati Ashram, the humble home where Mahatma Gandhi lived for a dozen years as he helped push India to gain independence from Britain.
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"So, I now have a temporary residence that resembles the quarters of some of the greatest political prisoners — Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Randal Robinson and Dr. Benjamin Chavis," he reportedly added.
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Mumbai's Britannia & Co., a destination for Parsi cuisine, was founded in 1923 and is still crowded today with old tables covered with checkered tablecloths and a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi on the peeling-paint walls.
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Modern-day India under Prime Minister Modi is the very antithesis of what Mahatma Gandhi stood for with his message of acceptance and rights of people irrespective of their caste, religion, race and economic status.
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It is unfathomable that the ancient Hindu horror at the taking of life, any life — the very same doctrine of ahimsa, or nonviolence, that governed the beliefs of men like Mahatma Gandhi and the Rev.
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The story follows a high school teacher, Grace, who finds herself in legal trouble for answering a student's question about the similarities between Jesus's teachings to those of Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi.
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The city's most prominent and well known highway -- Mahatma Gandhi Road -- passes through the central business district, a nightlife hotspot boasting an estimated 140 bars, while Old Madras Road, is also dotted with bars and restaurants.
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DAKAR (Reuters) - Ghana will move a statue of Mahatma Gandhi from its main university because of his "alleged past racist comments", the foreign ministry said, while paying tribute to Gandhi's role as a civil rights leader.
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Mahatma Gandhi famously led tens of thousands in a march in 1930 to the coastal village of Dandi, where he picked up a handful of salt to launch a protest against a tax on the commodity.
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Later, the president and first lady paid their respects to Mahatma Gandhi, scattering five handfuls of pink rose petals on the memorial at Raj Ghat, where the independence leader was cremated after being assassinated in 1948.
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Not only did Thoreau's ideas influence Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, but his strong-willed and idiosyncratic take on relationships among individuals, their governments, and nature has left a mark on generations of less famous readers.
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On the second day of their week-long tour of India, Prince William and Princess Kate honored the country's founding father, Mahatma Gandhi, with a poignant visit to the site where he was assassinated in New Delhi.
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"The world is amazed that toilets have been provided to more than 600 million people in 60 months, building more than 110 million toilets," Modi said on Wednesday, the 150th anniversary of Indian independence icon Mahatma Gandhi's birth.
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But whereas the Congress Party of Mahatma Gandhi envisioned a unified federal state, the Muslim League of Muhammad Ali Jinnah argued that the subcontinent's 3003% Muslim minority constituted a separate nation that risked oppression under a Hindu majority.
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He is now getting images of global leaders tattooed on his body to add to images of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, U.S. President Barack Obama, Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of India's independence movement.
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Whether you think the United Nations is the best thing since Mahatma Gandhi or an uber-liberal, supranational cabal of anti-American interests that sap our great nation of funds better earmarked for your next vacation, keep reading.
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A serious challenge to her authority emerged after protests against increasing food prices in 19803 snowballed into a powerful student and youth movement led by Jayaprakash Narayan, a 72-year-old socialist politician and follower of Mahatma Gandhi.
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That is when we will fulfill Mahatma Gandhi's dream, summed up in his favorite hymn, "Vaishnava Jana To," which says that a true human is one who feels the pain of others, removes misery and is never arrogant.
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" Evoking Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian independence fighter who championed nonviolent protest, Mr. Modi suggested that standing against the law "with stones" was a betrayal to India and part of a "conspiracy to malign the country around the world.
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A group of students, most of them women, were holding a sit-in near the barricade after they were stopped from marching to a memorial for independence leader Mahatma Gandhi on the anniversary of his assassination in 1948.
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The bronze by Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing - also the first statue by a woman to stand in the square - took its place among monuments to the likes of Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Abraham Lincoln.
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The fight to gain independence for India was a tense yet tireless one for political leaders such as Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi, Jawarharlal Nehru, who became India's first prime minister, and Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who became the founder of Pakistan.
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Though media outlets described Chavez's action as a hunger strike, Chavez viewed it in the broader tradition of spiritual sacrifice within his own Catholic faith, as well as the concept of satyagraha pioneered by Indian independence leader Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi.
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"No person in this nation has the right to take the law in his or her own hands," he said at the ashram dedicated to the father of the nation and pacifist Mahatma Gandhi, in Modi's home state of Gujarat.
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" When asked by the BBC whether perceptions of her as an amalgam of Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa of Calcutta were incorrect as she was more similar to former British leader Margaret Thatcher, she said: "Well no.
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Nazam Deen Mir, a local teacher with a monthly salary of 3,000 rupees ($44), said that during the drought the government should provide villagers with jobs quickly under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, a rural job scheme.
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Usha Mehta (1920 - 2000) Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi as a child, Usha Mehta ran a secret radio station with her friends during Gandhi's Quit India movement in August 1942, despite disapproval from her father, who worked as a judge under British rule.
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He painted hundreds of graphic posters for the Quit India movement against British rule in allegiance with Mahatma Gandhi in 23; later, during the worker and student uprisings in Paris in 22, he made a series of prints and bronzes called Demonstrators.
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At the Irish pub, Trump's sensei transported his audience to the Stone Zone, as he calls it, where alternative facts are gospel, Nixon is held up as the Beltway version of Mahatma Gandhi, and the current sitting president is America's anointed messiah.
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To cumulatively make the amount Mr. Ambani added to his income in a year, 18.7 million rural Indians working under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, the country's flagship employment program, would have to work for 12 months without a day off.
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In the final months of the Raj, Lord Mountbatten (Hugh Bonneville) arrives to oversee the transfer of power to Hind Swaraj (Indian Home Rule), and reconcile the demands of independence leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru with those of Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
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The messages varied from the ponderous monologue of Lincoln (written by George W. Saunders and voiced by Pete Simpson), to George Washington on horseback declaring he was not hailing a cab but instead blessing his troops, to Mahatma Gandhi who gave his activist biography.
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And Amazon (AMZN), whose Prime Video service also operates in India, was forced to issue a hasty apology in 2017 after protests over some products, including a doormat bearing the Indian flag and flip-flops with an image of iconic freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi.
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The protesters wear Muslim caps and many of the women wear the hijab headscarves, but they also sing national songs, read out sections of the constitution and carry pictures of independence hero Mahatma Gandhi and B.R. Ambedkar, who led the drafting of the constitution.
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The Dravidians, as opposed to the "Aryan" people of north India who speak Indo-European languages, regard themselves as having been shunted aside, in both ancient history and in the modern India forged by Jawaharlal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi and the rest of its north Indian founders.
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Other highlights of the trip include a visit to the place where Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in 1948 in Delhi, attending a Bollywood charity event in Mumbai and staying at the city's iconic Taj Mahal Palace hotel which was the target of the 2008 terror attacks.
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Yet the only gruesome sight here is Ron Perlman eating a sandwich, and the action in the ring—including the match with Ali, whom Braverman refers to as Mahatma, and an early encounter with Terry Hinke, known as the Stormin' Mormon—totals less than ten minutes.
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One swimmer is towing a figure of Mahatma Gandhi, in a life preserver with his spinning wheel, while the other is dragging a boat containing Frida Kahlo, clutching a doll-size Diego Rivera and a dog, her head crowned by parrots perched on a steering wheel.
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Trump's visit will be remembered more for the images it produced: a crowd topping 100,000 cheering for him at a campaign-like stadium rally, a softly lit tour of the Taj Mahal, and multiple homages to Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian independence leader famous for his humility.
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Trudeau landed in India along with his wife and three children on Saturday, beginning a winding tour across the country that has so far seen the family pictured at the Taj Mahal and wearing traditional dress at Mahatma Gandhi's ashram in the western state of Gujarat.
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