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Kedar Nath Das Gupta: The Gandhian theatre producer who tried to build peace in the world
A ‘godly dreamer’ of peace, Das Gupta believed that the arts and literature could bridge differences between people. 17 hours ago Kedar Nath Das Gupta (standing, extreme right) at a conference of world religions in 1927 with (sitting, from left to right) Anagarika Dharmapala (Buddhist), Dr FW Norwood (Protestant), Dr Annie Besant (Theosophist), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Spiritualist), Rev A Green (Jewish), and (standing, from left to right) Dr AD Jilla (Muslim), Rev Theodore Smith (Zoroastrian), SN Mallik (Hindu). | Courtesy: www.arthur-conan-doyle.com. Credit: The Graphic, October 8, 1927.
India s Prime Minister Narendra Modi touches a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in tribute to him during an official visit to Johannesburg, South Africa, on July 8, 2016 [Ihsaan Haffejee/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images]
Branding Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi as “Mahatma” (great-souled) and marketing him to global audiences as an undisputed and all-inclusive icon of non-violent resistance was perhaps the most successful propaganda campaign ever carried out by the Indian state.
Thus any attempt to critically challenge Gandhi’s legacy, even when it takes place in an obscure small town in America, causes much controversy in India and beyond.
On the morning of January 27, a statue of Gandhi was found vandalised in the town of Davis, in the north of the US state of California. It was not immediately clear who sawed the bronze statue off its base and for what purpose, but the condemnations started flowing in right away.