Tuesday, March 11

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Time magazine has a new feature called “The Best (& Worst) TIME Covers”. The one from 1931 features Gandhi.

Brown Man

He emerged from jail, having served a nine-month term for a minor offense (gun-carrying), and though widely publicized manage to remain at large. Curiously, it was in a jail that the year’s end found the little half-naked brown man whose 1930 mark on world history will undoubtedly loom largest of all. It was exactly twelve months ago that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s Indian National Congress promulgated the Declaration of Indian Independence….

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4 comments

  1. 1Rahul

    What? Now they’re doing TIME cover of the century? Have they well and truly run out of news? Or is their navel so big that it is the only thing they can gaze at now?

  2. 2FMJ

    Gandhi arrested for carrying a gun ?? Whoa… never heard that one before !

  3. 3manish

    Mohandas had a posse.

  4. 4Cherez

    what? the ‘asian american whiz kids‘ cover isn’t in the running?


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