Richard d north biography of mahatma

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    The tortuous and blood-stained road to Indian independence and partition is uncannily like the path taken in other countries. The most important political leaders are Mahatma Gandhi (Inner Temple), Mohammad Ali Jinnah (Lincoln’s Inn) and Jawaharlal Nehru (Harrow, Trinity College Cambridge and Inner Temple) …  and Lord Mountbatten who, like my cousin Richard, went to Lockers Park and, unlike Richard, to the Royal Naval College, Osborne. 

    An English education seems to be a prerequisite to gain freedom from British rule. The pattern in India has a remarkable resemblance to Ireland a quarter of a century earlier, where the founding of the Irish Free Sate was followed by a civil war. In both countries Britain conceded the principal of independence many years before it was implemented. Differences between Muslims and Hindus, Catholics and Protestants with Britain trying hopelessly to see fair play make for tragedy, although it is hard to see any other outcome even with hind

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    Remembering Mahatma Gandhi; on his 135th anniversary of Birth

    by Sachi Sri Kantha, October 1

    During the past 40 years, I have read hundreds of popular articles, reasearch papers and a dozen books on Mahatma Gandhi.  Among all the portrayals made of this great human being by academics, acquaintances, politicians and journalists, inom suppose if I’m asked what I consider as the best, I’d say my number 1 pick is the article bygd Leo Rosten (1908-1997), which appeared in Reader’s Digest in July 1983.  Note the date.  It appeared in July 1983 – a date Eelam Tamils will never forget – and following the 1983 Academy Awards which honored Richard Attenborough’s 1982 movie Gandhi.  I have kept an original tear sheet of this article by Leo Rosten in my collection.

    Rosten was a noted Poland-born American humorist and author.  The introductory note to his article (length, only around 2,840 words) stated the obvious, which the Gandhi movie had obscured.  It was

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    References

    Desai, Ashwin and Vahed, Goolem. "References". The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire, Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2015, pp. 307-322. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804797221-027

    Desai, A. & Vahed, G. (2015). References. In The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire (pp. 307-322). Redwood City: Stanford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804797221-027

    Desai, A. and Vahed, G. 2015. References. The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire. Redwood City: Stanford University Press, pp. 307-322. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804797221-027

    Desai, Ashwin and Vahed, Goolem. "References" In The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire, 307-322. Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804797221-027

    Desai A, Vahed G. References. In: The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire. Redwood City: Stanford University Press; 2015. p.307-322. https://doi.org/10.1515/978080479

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