India s Prime Minister Narendra Modi touches a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in tribute to him during an official visit to Johannesburg, South Africa, on July 8, 2016 [Ihsaan Haffejee/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images]
Branding Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi as “Mahatma” (great-souled) and marketing him to global audiences as an undisputed and all-inclusive icon of non-violent resistance was perhaps the most successful propaganda campaign ever carried out by the Indian state.
Thus any attempt to critically challenge Gandhi’s legacy, even when it takes place in an obscure small town in America, causes much controversy in India and beyond.
On the morning of January 27, a statue of Gandhi was found vandalised in the town of Davis, in the north of the US state of California. It was not immediately clear who sawed the bronze statue off its base and for what purpose, but the condemnations started flowing in right away.
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The University of Saint Joseph presents a three-part Civil Rights Film Series, curated by Dr. Pablo Correa, Dr. Anthony De Jesús, and Steven Raider-Ginsburg. The film series is virtual, consisting of the film and post-film panel discussion with the filmmaker and additional panelists. The film series runs on Thursdays, April 8, April 15 and April 22 at 7 p.m. Tickets are free of charge and can be obtained online at autorino.usj.edu
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Among the few movies that I kept returning to was the 1982 Gandhi. It made me
reflect often on how nonviolence had taken by storm a world that used to accept
nothing but an eye for an eye. You ve given them a way to fight. said Khan to
Gandhi when they were prisoned for defying an unjust British law. It turned out,
his way of fighting had since spread like a killer app.
Jr. took different paths. Charismatic, faithful, and living like a saint,
Malcolm nonetheless failed to win the hearts and minds with separatism ideas . It
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