Dinner With Mahatma Gandhi
If I could have dinner with anyone, alive or dead, it would most definitely be Mohandas K. Gandhi.
Gandhi turned the world upside down in the most violent fashion: without the use of any violence at all. He grew up in an India unjustly ruled by the British, who had simply invaded and colonized and controlled the lives of hundreds of millions of people thousands of miles away from their relatively tiny land.
The British treated the Indians as slaves and reinforced racial stereotypes every day they kept control of the subcontinent. They created areas for themselves and did not allow Indians in their cantonement districts.
Gandhi grew up amongst this and knew he had to make a change. He studied to become a lawyer and first practiced in South Africa, where he fought apartheid. Realizing that he must help his own people too, he returned to India and started a freedom movement, unique in the Earth's history in that it was non-violent. He and his followers simply resisted the British; they did not fight them.
Gandhi led the simplest life; dressed only in a loincloth, with no possessions. He encouraged self-sufficiency and education, and started the homespun wool movement. He even showed foresight in foreign policy: When Hitler started World War II, Gandhi actually halted the Indian freedom movement, and asked the Indians to support the British rather than take advantage of their weakness. His theory - correct - was that Hitler was a much more evil foe. The British could be dealt with later.
I'd want to eat with Gandhi so I could learn from where he derived his passion, his non-violent bent, his perseverance and his love for India. I'd also want to learn where he learned his magnanimity: He was eventually assassinated by his own people because he gave too much away to Pakistan, India's sworn enemy, because he believed that both countries were brothers.
We all have a lot to learn from Gandhi.
Take Martin Luther King, Jr., for instance, who based his entire movement on Gandhi's work on non-violence. I'd like to start learning over dinner.
I'd hope that after a meal with this legend, I'd be able to take his learnings and help my corner of the world.
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