Weird. It’s come up on this site alone about a million times, yet no one really remarks on it (or if they have, I’ve missed the discussions, which is equally likely).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3889605.stm

ironic, considering the vitriol you periodically and gratuitously spout against others on this site although, i guess you defense would be that you are not a true admirer of gandhi, or that “lefties” (just to take the example on this thread, although pretty much every thread you participate in will provide a new example) don’t count.

above all we need to deal with the Chemical Locha going on in our heads.

A true admirer of Gandhi can hate no one! It is almost impossible to be so. As I have written here, time and again, Gandhi is much, much more than India’s struggle for freedom. Gandhi is the true world citizen of the future. Gandhi worked toward freedom for India not as an end in itself, but to so as to provide what he thought would be the best environment for the people of India to live a joyous and responsible life, and also because the way he went about it was, he thought, the ethical way …for means, after all, are everything

I may only presume you’re talking about the magazine and not the word itself. Peaceful resistance movements and leaders the world over have invoked him routinely over the decades. That’s pretty much as cosmopolitan as Jesus, except more verifiable.

And for your reference, the shiv sena (et al) would sooner create a Jinnah District than a Gandhi one. Their interest lies in the Partition, not the liberation.

You’re welcome.

City of Houston thought the way, I put it.

You can look it up in past and present newspaper articles in Houston Chronicle. This issue has been going for 7 years.

Seriously?

A loin cloth and gamcha – minimal clothing, something like your shorts and T-Shirt or vest! Cool,and sotrendy Filth? Gandhi wanted everyone to clean their own thunder box, no high no low – just clean. Gandhi kept himself and his surroundings scrupulously clean with very little expenditure of resources – natural composting, etc. Way ahead of his times and even ours! Right wing Hindu nationalism? Yeah that’s why lefties win tenure by blaming Hindus/right wing Hindus etc for killing Gandhi! ABCDs gratuitously in love? Everyone loves everything! Vegetarian diets – a la Bryan Adams, Toby McGuire, Tony Gonzalez, Joaquin Phoenix, McCartney…the list goes on – what a crowd puller An emaciated body – Lean and Mean, Gandhi walked about 20-30 miles a day leading 10000s at a time – the most powerful army ever! General disarray – MLK tried Gandhi’s ways and WON! Mandela gave up armed struggle and tried Gandhi’s ways and WON! March on Wanshington, Selma-Montgomery, and many more – all peaceful, mobilizing almost a million – not one act of violence by the marchers. The epitome of order – Something everyone of us shouldlearn from.

Seriously? Your middle name must start with J