Mahatma Gandhi Statue in the heart of Washington DC
Last night as I was coming back home late at night from DC, I spotted two ladies looking intently at this statue of Mahatma Gandhi. I don’t walk on that road often so I had never seen this statue but I was very surprised to see this magnificent statue of Gandhi right in the middle of the city. The statue has been gifted by the Indian government and the Indian Americans in USA. At times like this I think that DC may be USA’s capital but when you see gifts from countries around the world displayed around the city, it seems to me to be a world city.
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Thanks for including this remarkable statue to a most remarkable human being. Please allow me to include the following about the plaque on the front of the statue: “In the spring of 1945, Denton J. Brooks, an African American reporter for the Chicago Defender, arranged a brief interview with Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Using the respectful but familiar “Gandhiji,” Brooks asked, “Is there any special message you would care to send to the Negro people of America?” Gandhi replied, “My life is its own message” ( Chicago Defender, June 10, 1945; reprinted in Raghavan Iyer, ed., The Essential Writings of Mahatma Gandhi, 2005, pp. 40–41). These words, shortened to “my life is my message,” adorn the front of the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial in Washington, D.C. Carved beneath “Mahatma Gandhi” and the dates, “1869–1948,” those five words speak to the promise and the challenge of the Gandhi Memorial—to communicate in stone and space the multiple meanings of a long and diverse life. – http://jah.oxfordjournals.org/content/93/3/830.extract
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