Word: mahatma
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Mohandas Gandhi and Dhirubhai Ambani were the two most famous scions of the Modh Bania, a Hindu commercial caste based in the arid Saurashtra peninsula of India's western Gujarat state. The Mahatma idealized traditional village ways, passive resistance, and homespun cotton. Ambani, a billionaire industrialist, preached prosperity to a burgeoning Indian middle-class via a business empire built on polyester...
Consider Ahmed El-Gaili ’98, a student at Harvard Law School, who wrote a recent article, “Towards Moral Resistance,” for the Jordan Times. In the article, Gaili advocates the nonviolent protest methods employed so successfully by Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. “Some Palestinians have tried to show the moral supremacy of their cause by responding in-kind to Israeli terror and targeting civilians inside Israel’s borders,” Gaili writes. “Such attacks must be condemned on political, moral, religious...
...Palestinian peaceniks may be something of a fringe group right now - although their perspective probably has a lot more support among the leadership on their side of the divide than that of their Israeli counterparts. And even if the PA was tempted to resort now to the tactics of Mahatma Gandhi, the men in charge of the militias and terrorist cells on the ground who actually carry out the suicide bombings and guerrilla attacks have a way of imposing their own ideas...
...Mohandas Gandhi, in prison for mobilizing Indians against the British raj. A believer in "passive resistance" who had a steely will, a monklike ascetic who was a London-trained lawyer and a sophisticated politician, Gandhi gave Indians a proud identity and sense of nationhood. Many venerated him as a mahatma (great soul). His protests in 1930 presaged the moment in 1947 when Britain would grant India independence and Gandhi would achieve worldwide status as a moral icon. His example lives on in nonviolent activists of our day such as Lech Walesa and Nelson Mandela...
...greatest leaders of the past century, Mahatma Gandhi, had foreseen all of this in the equally murderous relations between communities in India before partition. He knew the awful logic of violence. His view was that the Communists had it all quite wrong. The ends did not justify the means. On the contrary, it was the character of the means used that determined the nature of the ends achieved. Violence will result in further violence. The infernal spiral must be turned back by any means possible. And by holding on to truth, satyagraha...