My visit to Sabarmati Ashram in the year 2004, is still vivid in my mind. On the 64th year since Indian Independence, I watched for the fourth time, the Richard Attenborough’s 1982 biography picture of Mahatma Gandhi – over three hours in length, filled with stunning location photography of the Indian landscape, a superb cast and crowd scenes that use hundreds of thousands of extras – this film got eight Academy awards including Best Actor (Ben Kingsley as Gandhi) and Best Director (Richard Attenborough).
He was a man who made humility and simple truth more powerful than Empires.” Albert Einstein said, “It will be difficult for the next generation to believe that a man in flesh and blood, like Gandhi, ever walked on this Earth”.
Marshall (1947-1949) said of him, “Mahatma Gandhi has become the spokesman for the conscience of all mankind.
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