New Delhi GANDHI has been all over New York lately. First he appeared at Occupy Wall Street as a patron saint of sorts, inspiring the protest's nonviolent tactics. (The demonstrators even named a lane for him.) Then he emerged at the Metropolitan Opera as the star of Philip Glass's opera ''Satyagraha.'' But with the Zuccotti Park encampment...
Bronxville, N.Y. IN a coffee shop not long ago, I saw a mug with an inscription from Henry David Thoreau: ''Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.'' At least it said the words were Thoreau's. But the attribution seemed a bit suspect. Thoreau, after all, was not known for his liberal use of exclamation points....
A FIRST-RATE MADNESS Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness By Nassir Ghaemi 340 pp. The Penguin Press. $27.95. After examining the psychological histories of a few living leaders and a whole little power necropolis, Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts University Medical Center, is ready to proclaim a...
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi eller Mahatma Gandhi (2. oktober 1869 - 30. januar 1948) var en indisk politiker og åndelig leder, der stod i spidsen for Indiens uafhængighedsbevægelse.
Født i Porbandar, et lille fyrstedømme i nuværende Gujarat.
Kæmpede fra 1893 til 1914 i Sydafrika for at forbedre indernes forhold der.
Tilbage i Indien startede han i 1919 ulydighedskampagne og boykot mod den engelske kolonimagt for at opnå selvstyre. Gandhi blev Kongrespartiets leder, men var gentagne gange fængslet af englænderne. Han organiserede mange aktioner baseret på Satyagraha el. "passiv modstand" (ofte betegnet som civil ulydighed). I 1930 ledede han en 400 km lang march til havet for at demonstrere mod regeringens saltmonopol.
Gandhi var modstander af Indiens deling i Pakistan og Indien i 1947 og agiterede for en fælles muslimsk-hinduistisk stat, men blev myrdet af en fanatisk hindu, der var modstander af en forsoning med muslimerne. Fold ud