Martin L. King & Mahatma Gandhi

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Re: Martin L. King & Mahatma Gandhi

And this is from an authentic source - Deptt of History at UCLA

Manas: History and Politics, Pietermaritzburg

The story of Gandhi’s travails at Pietermaritzburg Railway Station has now acquired another life. In a moving ceremony at Pietermaritzburg Railway Station presided over by Nelson Mandela, the President of South Africa, the Freedom of Pietermaritzburg was conferred posthumously on Mahatma Gandhi on April 25, 1997. Gathered together to right a century-old wrong, President Mandela recalled “Gandhi’s magnificent example of personal sacrifice and dedication in the face of oppression”. Gopalkrishna Gandhi, India’s High Commissioner to South Africa, received the Freedom of Pietermaritzburg on behalf of his grandfather and noted that Gandhi’s experience at the railway station was something like a second birth: “When Gandhi was evicted from the train, an Indian visiting South Africa fell but when Gandhi rose, an Indian South African rose.”

LOL…while black South Africans celebrate Gandhi as a hero, some Pakistanis and a “gone bonkers” Sardarji are trying hard to defame him. Carry on :k: