Photos from the last decade of Gandhi's life published

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-35259671



Taking a phone call in his ashram



Being weighed during a fast



Stuck on a road in Kashmir



With his wife



Meeting with militant Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose



Meditating with Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore (the only person, incidentally, to have written and composed three countries' national anthems: India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka)



Collecting donations for relief for dalits ("untouchables&quot

Also, there's a cool backstory about the photographer in the article.

[Odin2005]

1. I'm curious why one of those bullhorns says "CHICAGO".

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2. Me too, and I have two theories

1. Lots of manufacturers in India, then and now, use American names (even completely random ones) to give their products some "exotic" cachet. (The Hindi under it just says "Chicago" phonetically, and the other one says "Chikago Elino" -- I'm assuming that's for "Illinois" -- along its side.)

2. Swami Vivekananda had famously given a speech at the World Congress of Religions in Chicago calling for tolerance and universal brotherhood; it may be a reference to that.

[JI7]

4. you know how to read hindi ?

maybe the bullhorns were made in chicago

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5. Yeah. But if they were made in Chicago why would Chicago be written in Hindi?

I thought about that, but I doubt a Chicago bullhorn manufacturer would have written चिकागो on them.

[JI7]

8. i was thinking they were both written by some indian person

it was something i can see some indian or other foreigner doing if they bought something from america. but i'm thinking more about people in modern times and how they would think having something american made would be cool .

but i think your 2nd point is more likely to have something to do with it.

i can't even speak hindi . but from the short time i was in india you can get by just knowing english.

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9. And there are plenty of parts of India where English is better to know than Hindi

Hindi is mostly just the upper Ganges plain: Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, maybe Jharkand. Everywhere else has regional languages, and they probably paid more attention to English in school than they did to Hindi, because English has a lot of economic advantages to learning it.

So, in my neighborhood in Mumbai, my estimate is that the signs and posters are about half in English and half in Marathi; Hindi only appears on the official things like bus stops (and those have English too). And in places like Chennai or Kolkata where they actually use a different alphabet it's even more apparent: I almost never see Hindi in Kolkata, just Bengali and English.

[JI7]

3. i wish the indian govt would release the kallenbach letters

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6. Oh Lord... you want to see RSS go apeshit?

I would love for them to be available too, though...

[2naSalit]

7. Very interesting

and historically important! Thanks for posting this.