tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8952506.post113888697780023075..comments2023-10-30T11:04:56.461-04:00Comments on Musings: Remembering GandhiUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8952506.post-1138902529887459102006-02-02T12:48:00.000-05:002006-02-02T12:48:00.000-05:00The romanticisation of the Indian villager sounds,...The romanticisation of the Indian villager sounds, well, romantic, until you realise that a large number of them live in utter poverty which was, in Gandhi's view, a form of violence. Everytime I see the desperate poverty in Mumbai, for instance, I have the opposite proximate feeling - an admiration of America based on the fact that it has, for the most part, been able to give its citizenry the basic decencies of life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com