Behind a 7-foot-tall vintage poster of "The White Mahatma" is a hidden door to rooms including the small storage room where Mr. Smith now lives.
The imposing, glass-fronted building situated on the prominent Mahatma Gandhi Road resembles a posh international store rather than a traditional jewelry shop.
Mahatma Gandhi, on a stop at the local station, makes an impassioned call for reform which inspires the child-bride and the now bereaved lover to flee the town together and accompany Gandhi to a brighter future.
India's polarities killed both protagonists: the Mahatma was shot by a Hindu fanatic enraged by his solicitude towards Muslims, Indira by her Sikh bodyguards, provoked by an attack she authorised on Punjabi separatists who had seized Sikhism's holiest site.
The Newtown area is growing as a cultural center, with art galleries, theaters and dance venues, and Constitution Hill, once the site of a prison that held Mahatma Gandhi and later Nelson Mandela, has been converted into the country's highest law court and a tourist attraction, with exhibitions dedicated to its unsavory past.
Back when the President was a senator, he kept a picture of Mahatma Gandhi, the father of India, in his office.
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That means, as far as this award is concerned, peace award, he is also a believer in Mahatma Gandhi's ideas of peace and nonviolence.
She points to what looks like an empty space on the left side and then holds it up against the light and suddenly a picture of Mahatma Gandhi appears with the number 500 written on it.
If Mr. Hazare doesn't approve the bill, she said, she will participate in his next scheduled agitation: a movement on Dec. 30 in which volunteers allow themselves to be arrested to fill the jails, a tactic used by Mahatma Gandhi when he was leading India's movement for independence from its British rulers.
Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, joined the protesters to sign a "pledge of resistance" to fracking and discuss utilizing civil disobedience if shale gas development is permitted.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) was a saint-genius who turned opposition to British rule into a mass movement and demonstrated, through non-violent protest, that virtue has its own inescapable power.
In civil disobedience - which has a very proud tradition that includes Mahatma Gandhi, it includes Dr. King, you know, there's no shortage of examples - part of the concept is that you dramatize an important public issue by sacrificing yourself in some way, whether it - not necessarily, you know, in terms of giving up your life, but in terms of exposing yourself through adverse action by the government.
Having written about all of Jobs' many cruelties and sins over the years, I had a hard time believing he'd become Mahatma Gandhi.
Under the name MC Yogi, Mr. Giacomini began writing, recording and selling online yoga-centric rap songs, such as "Be the Change, " a hip-hop telling of the story of Mahatma Gandhi.
Mahatma Gandhi, his saintly fellow-worker for independence, was a devout Hindu, but challenged the orthodox with his campaign against untouchability.
In 1948, as a UP bureau chief in India, he broke to the world the story of Mahatma Gandhi's assassination.
Religious tempers had been calmed, government functioning made more transparent (through the right to information law), and a series of welfare measures for the rural poor (pre-eminently, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme) initiated.
Though it admits the Mahatma's failings, Mr Wolpert's book verges on hagiography, which is disappointing in a life of such a historical figure.
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