Gandhigiri

by sepoy on October 3, 2008 · 4 comments

I failed to note Gandhiji’s birthday yesterday. Or note these great photos:

(Pawan Kumar/Reuters)

(Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images)

Tagged as: holydays

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1 vivek October 3, 2008 at 9:45 pm: Poor guy. Everyone exploits him so. Where were these taken?
2 Mario October 4, 2008 at 10:37 pm: Isn’t it interesting how they’re all wearing the Brahmanical sacred thread? Most photographs of Gandhi himself don’t have him wearing it. Where were these pictures taken again?
3 sepoy October 5, 2008 at 10:54 am: These two photos came courtesy of the wire – the bottom one is from Amritsar, the top from Lucknow. And here is a story from last year, placing the festival in Srinagar.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20071003/j&k.htm#1
4 vivek October 6, 2008 at 5:44 pm: Mario:

Isn’t it interesting how they’re all wearing the Brahmanical sacred thread?

And that a few of those canes also might serve nicely as lathis…