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Google News: 'Un-success seemed to suit these three'

[Tehelka] - The struggle for freedom after Tilak had been a sky with a single sun, Mohandas Gandhi. After that sun descended abruptly one winter dusk on Albuquerque Road, New Delhi, night descended. And a bespangled sky came into inky view with a great and

Briefs: US Election, November 7, 2012

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[South China Morning Post (subscription)] - They met at the back of Busboys and Poets, a popular coffeehouse in the U Street neighbourhood of Washington and debated in front of black-and-white portraits of Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King and the Dalai Lama. NYT. Dad's campaign pins a

US Presidential Elections 2012: Four third-party candidates striving ...

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[Economic Times] most famous third-party candidate in recent memory, Ralph Nader. They met at the back of Busboys and Poets, a popular coffeehouse in the U Street neighborhood of Washington, debating in front of black-and-white portraits of Mohandas Gandhi, the Rev.

20 things you did not know about Obama

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[gulfnews.com] He was given the code name “Renegade” by his Secret Service handlers His heroes are Martin Luther King Jr, Mohandas Gandhi, Pablo Picasso, and John Coltrane Barack Obama's first children's book was for his daughters and is Of Thee I Sing

Google News: Oh, humanity, where art thou?

[The Sunday Times Sri Lanka] - Lukman Harees by his great scholarly work stands together with history's great idealists such as Aldous Huxley, Harold Pinter, Thomas Paine, Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela. As I was reading the book, I asked myself how I would

Resisting an aggressive secularism

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[Catholic News Agency] - Nor for that matter would William Lloyd Garrison, Martin Luther King, Desmond Tutu, or Mohandas Gandhi. One wonders how neither Habermas nor Steinberg can see that the Enlightenment view, though obviously valuable, is hardly identical to Reason tout

Google News: John Foster Way: GOP slowly stripping away social justice

[Norwich Bulletin] - Mohandas Gandhi once said, “We have enough for everybody's need, but not enough for everybody's greed.” What we also have is the United States of America — known around the world as the epitome of social justice — under attack by the Republican

Mohandas Gandhi can't be 'Father of Nation': Indian Government

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[Rupee News] - According to the Indian Home Ministry, Mohandas Gandhi cannot be accorded the 'Father of the Nation' title by government as the Constitution does not permit any titles except educational and military ones. Mohandas begging for his life from Godse with

Google News: Buber, Gandhi, and Rabban Gamliel: Human Dignity Over Absolute ...

[The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A. (blog)] - He opposed the arming of Jewish settlers in Palestine even after they had been attacked, and opposed the creation of a Jewish majority after the Arab boycott. Mohandas Gandhi, on the other hand, was keenly aware of the violence of European colonialism

'Iron Man 3' teaser trailer introduces Ben Kingsley as The Mandarin

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[Examiner.com] - Now some are shocked to see Kingsley in this role as they still remember him best for playing Mohandas Gandhi, leader of India's nonviolent resistance movement against British colonial rule in “Gandhi.” It looks like they need to be reminded of his

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[Ottawa Citizen] - Marc Kielburger, 35, alluded to Mohandas Gandhi when he said: “Be the change ” calling those words “some of the most important ever spoken in the history of social justice.” Other performers included OneRepublic, Cody Simpson and Shawn Desman

My turn: Teachers who were role models

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[Newsday] - Of course, I remember the classroom lessons on the teachings of Mohandas Gandhi and the caste system in India, but often it is the teachings outside the classroom that make the most impact on a person's life. As an adolescent with major self-esteem

News and Views from around the world

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[Rupee News] - Mohandas Gandhi can't be 'Father of Nation': Indian Government In news that would delight the BJP and the RSS, Mohandas Gandhi cannot be referred to as the Father of the Nation. According to the Indian Home Ministry, Mohandas Gandhi cannot be

Google News: Charity: wealthy woman gives books to children of India's poorest ...

[Alaska Dispatch] - Mr. Jha recalls how Nilekani drove for hours through one of the remotest districts of Bihar to visit a school run by her great-grandfather and established by Mohandas Gandhi in "It showed how keen she was to do something in Bihar, and her family

Google News: Nobel hòa bình cho EU

[Tuổi Trẻ] - Sau Mohandas Gandhi, người qua đời mà chưa được nhận giải Nobel hòa bình, EU là thiếu sót lớn nhất trong danh sách các cá nhân và tổ chức từng được Ủy ban Nobel Na Uy vinh danh. Chủ tịch Ủy ban châu Âu Jose Manuel Barroso đã lên tiếng ca ngợi

Renowned composer Philip Glass still pushing boundaries

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[Allentown Morning Call] - "Satyagraha" ("truth force" in Sanskrit) is based on Mohandas Gandhi's campaigns of nonviolent resistance in South Africa. The contradictions inherent in presenting a Gandhi opera at one of the world's most richly endowed performing arts institutions

Occupy Wall Street stories provocatively staged

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[Allentown Morning Call] - The event was a Philip Glass concert in December 2011, of "Satyagraha," an opera loosely based on the life of Mohandas Gandhi. The play actually leads up to this event, where protesters came to Lincoln Center and were eventually joined by Glass.

Google News: Issues, faith that spurred Cesar Chavez persist in the fields

[The Pilot] - Like Mohandas Gandhi and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. before him, Chavez was an advocate of nonviolence. He would call off planned protests and demonstrations, saying he'd rather be seen as caving in to the employers than risking violence. And, like

Google News: Fight for the truth

[Fiji Times] - What was there about Mohandas Gandhi that led these great leaders to admire him so publicly? The head boys from Ratu Sukuna Memorial School and MGM High School earlier spoke so eloquently about Gandhi, and the principal of MGM (Mrs Rajput) in

Pakistan PM condemns bounty on anti-Islam filmmaker

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[The National] - It is made up of followers of veteran Pashtun nationalist politician, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, who was renowned as "Sarhadi Gandhi" (Frontier Gandhi) for advocating the policy of non-violence of his close friend Mohandas Gandhi against British colonial

Google News: Lezing over Mahatma Gandhi

[Het Krantje Online] - Mohandas Gandhi ( ) later Mahatma (= grote ziel) genoemd, was in veel opzichten de meest vooraanstaande politiek en religieus leider van India in de 20e eeuw. In ging hij naar rechten studeren in Londen. Vijf jaar later kreeg hij een

Gandhi's grandson coming to tri-states

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[Dubuque Telegraph Herald] - Featured speaker for the International Day of Peace is Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas Gandhi, appearing at 7 p.m. Friday at Loras College and at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Divine Word College, Epworth, Iowa. Both appearances are free and

ACTIVISM: Fracktivism at work

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[Rochester City Newspaper] - Before there was such a thing as the environmental movement, Mohandas Gandhi warned of the dangers of industrialization and espoused living in balance with the earth. Fittingly, the Rochester-based institute that bears his name is stepping into the

Sedition Law is Against Spirit of Democracy

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[Salem-News.Com] - Mohandas Gandhi was convicted of sedition by the British Imperial government in Arguing his own case, Gandhi told the judge that he had no affection for the British government and, moreover, he felt it was his duty to inform his fellow citizens

Protesters in India embrace waterlogged tactics

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[Los Angeles Times] - The tradition stems at least as far back as the salt march against oppressive taxation led by Mohandas Gandhi that helped bring down the British empire, and Gandhi's “fasting unto death,” employed effectively to pressure politicians and stem

Google News: L'ABP à Barcelone pour la manifestation « Catalunya, nou estat d ...

[Agence Bretagne Presse] - Cette devise, proposée par l'Assemblea Nacional Catalana, était également appelée «Marxa sobre Barcelona», «Marche sur Barcelone» en allusion aux marches pacifiques de Mohandas Gandhi pour l'indépendance de l'Inde et de Martin Luther King pour

Sedition law is against spirit of democracy

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[Times of India] - Mohandas Gandhi was convicted of sedition by the British Imperial government in Arguing his own case, Gandhi told the judge that he had no affection for the British government and, moreover, he felt it was his duty to inform his fellow citizens

In search of a 'repackaged' Gandhi?

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[Times of India] - About 143 years after Mohandas Gandhi's birth, the question is whether the Mahatma should be repackaged for popular consumption. Is Gandhian thought relevant at all? Last October, junior school students of one of Patna's well-known girl schools were

Ukrainian Famine Memorial Plan Stirs Controversy: Why In DC ...

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[Huffington Post] - Mohandas Gandhi. This monument to the noted figure of Indian independence and father of non-violent protest, is located at

OUR VIEW: The Truth is out there, somewhere

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[Pittsburg Morning Sun] - The truth is out there, for X-Files fans. Joseph Heller said “The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth. Don't you know history?” Mohandas Gandhi said that “even if I am a minority of one, truth is still the truth.” Finally, “The truth is
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