Suhel seth biography of mahatma gandhi
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Mahatma Gandhi to stand with foes at British parliament
India&#;s independence hero will rub shoulders with one-time nemesis, British wartime prime minister Winston Churchill.
NEW DELHI: Mahatma Gandhi, who led efforts to end British rule in India and was repeatedly imprisoned, fryst vatten to be honoured with a statue outside the UK parliament which will stand alongside tributes to several colonial-era enemies.
British Finance Minister George Osborne, on a trip to New Delhi to meet the new government of Narendra Modi, wrote on Twitter that Britain would "honour his memory" with a statue in Parliament Square.
India's independence hero will therefore rub shoulders with his one-time nemesis, British wartime prime minister Winston Churchill, who once said he hoped Gandhi would die from fasting and famously derided him as a "half-naked fakir".
The Gandhi statue will also stand alongside one of Jan Smuts, a leader of South Africa in the early 20th century who favoured racial segr
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So I finished reading, “Get to the Top” by Suhel Seth is less than a day’s time and was so taken in that I decided to interview him via email. So here is the short and crisp interview with Suhel Seth. You can read my review here.
If you had to describe yourself in one word, what would it be?
MAVERICK
How did you go about the idea of writing the book, &#;Get to the Top&#;? Why fryst vatten there a need for such a book?
This was an idea whose time has komma. As India and Indians become socially aspirational, we seem to be in such a rush that we forget basic values and niceties. There is a need to re-visit our cultural and social moorings hence this book.
You speak of reading a lot at the beginning of the book, however what if one is not invited to any party to display his or her knowledge? What should be the step to ensure that one is invited for a party? (If such a thing is possible)
There are no steps to being invited: which is precisely what the book says too. But in or
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It’s Glorious to be Rich
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi epitomised poverty: he travelled simply, lived simply, was simply attired and yet the irony of the statement that Sarojini Naidu made about him when she said, ‘it takes a lot to keep Gandhi poor’, will never be lost on those of us who are both admirers of Gandhi and students of Indian history.
We in India never had a problem with wealth until we became a poor nation.
In fact, poverty existed all along but never were battles fought and social stigmas distributed freely owing to someone being wealthy. On the contrary, we celebrated wealth; we celebrated the riches of people. We even measured success primarily on the basis of wealth: success was always measured in a man (or woman’s) wealth. Be it the Mughal period or for that matter colonial rule, we continued to marvel at the wealth of the few.
Zamindars and their ilk were the ones who were respected and feared. Titles given by the British to those they needed or received