“Appropriately India chose to announce its INDC (Intended Nationally Determined Contributions)on Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday”.
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“India’s diplomacy is focussed today on a broad range of global issues that serve the broader interests of humanity”, he said adding that through India’s humanitarian operations in Yemen and Nepal, the country helped those in distress irrespective of nationality. Faulty land and mining laws legitimize the way big players not only deplete precious natural resources but also destroy the identity and livelihoods of local tribal people. Even after 70 years later, he remains a source of strength.
Another classmate had recollected Gandhi as a “dashing cricketer” whose childhood was filled with the Gentleman’s Game.
Especially for the path of non-violence and truth which he followed his entire life.
Only hours later, The Guardian reported that, “Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by a young Hindu extremist while walking to his prayer meeting in the lawn of Birla House, New Delhi, yesterday”.
The exhibition entitled “Gandhi through Eyes of Egyptian Cartoonists” will be held from October 4-15, and is part of an extensive collaboration between the Maulana Azad Centre for Indian Culture (MACIC), Embassy of India, and the Egyptian Caricature Society (ECS).
Other news reports said that Gandhi raised his hands above his head after being shot in the same salutation as he fell. He even wrote him a letter! The eminently distinguished spin bowler, Palwankar Baloo was an untouchable by caste. Invoking Gandhi’s philosophy of abolishing untouchability, he was eventually appointed the captain of the Hindus. Upon his release from jail, he worked as the managing editor of the Hindustan Times.
On his early morning visit to Rajghat – the black marble top memorial to the Mahatma on the bank of Yamuna river here – Modi was accompanied by senior BJP leader L.K. Advani, union Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu and other central ministers.
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Watch this space for more updates… Somehow, he successfully procured complimentary passes for the Test match at Trent Bridge. Therefore his portrait should be living till ages everywere. Cachalia recalled how the first office of the African National Congress ANC outside South Africa was opened by her grandfather in India, which was the first country to openly support the ANC. Prema Naidoo, now a councillor in Johannesburg, also spent time in the then prison as an activist.
