President Obama Remembers Gandhi, and King, in Mumbai

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(REUTERS/Jason Reed)

____ President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama visited the Gandhi Museum in Mumbai on Saturday afternoon, located in a home where Gandhi stayed during his nonviolent campaign for India’s independence from the British.

The two Obamas were given a tour of the museum, stopping in the library in front of a bronze relief of Gandhi’s face to sign a guest book.

Obama wrote, “I am filled with hope and inspiration as I have the privilege to visit this testament to Gandhi. He is a hero not just to India, but to the world.” Mrs. Obama wrote: “This visit will be one that I will always remember. …” before signing it.

As he stopped to sign, Obama took note of another signature, from 1959, in another guest book. It was signed by King, who visited India in 1959, 11 years after Gandhi was slain, to draw lessons from the Indian leader’s nonviolent struggle to end 200 years of British rule.

read: http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/2010/11/06/obama-remembers-gandhi-and-king-in-mumbai/


____ "Pretty cool -- 1959," the president said after seeing King's signature.

The president spent several minutes in the library, which has Gandhi quotations on the walls, such as, "Freedom is like a birth."

Obama seemed particularly moved by another quotation: "To call women the weaker sex is a libel. It is man's injustice to women. ... If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with women."

"Look at that," the president said.


read: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/11/06/india.obama.gandhi/

[malaise]

1. Look at that indeed

"To call women the weaker sex is a libel. It is man's injustice to women. ... If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with women."

Obama gets it.

[mix]

2. And yet the violence continues...

Iraq, Afghanistan, Bagram, threats to Iran, civilian deaths in Pakistan.

If only he did follow the principles of non-violence and not those of our military establishment.

[Scurrilous]

3. K & R

:thumbsup:

[jaxx]

4. K&R Very interesting.

[pa28]

5. Looks like a fascinating place to visit.

OT: I guess the story about Obama's kilometer long bomb proof tunnel with closed circuit tv and air conditioning was either fabricated or greatly exaggerated. What a surprise.