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In short, approximately a thousand other Indians (& my friend from church, Pradeep, along with his wife and kids and other friends from church) spent the evening of the second day of Siege in Mumbai, i.e. November 28, singing, dancing, and focusing on becoming better in living out their lives than those terrorists back in Mumbai.
That is, those who are dumping their garbage of hate and anger on others these days.
INDIAN WITNESS TO AMERICANS
Back in the U.S.A. , on Thursday the first full-day of the "Siege in Mumbai", the Democracy Now program in New York City determined to replay a segment of Martin Luther King Jr. being interviewed by the recently deceased Studs Terkel-recorded in the early 1960s just after King had received the Nobel Peace Prize.
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/11/27/studs_terkel_1912_2008_a_democracy
I, just like my hero MLK had done 50 years ago, had come to India this decade to seek the footsteps where Gandhi had tread.
In that recorded discussion with Terkel in 1964, King makes it clear that he was deeply influenced by three men-his father, Thoreau, and Gandhi.
King, unlike the Pat Robertson's model of a Christian in our day, knew what it was like to really try and follow the path of Jesus (and the path of Gandhi).
HOW DID KING RESPOND TO TERROR AND VIOLENCE?
Besides looking at the senseless terror and violence, readers today in November 2008 must remember that there have been many a light a-shining from and in India in the past millennia -just as in the centuries of U.S. history, some Americans have actually served as beacons on the hill for others.
We can no longer look at the darkness and carry-out revenge and dump garbage on others!
That is not the way either to live or to die!
MLK noted in the aforementioned Terkel interview that his own father had made it clear to him that the children of segregationists were growing up with garbage and illnesses of the mind.
Therefore, in the midst of his learning as a child (and as a college student of Gandhi and Thoreau), MLK acquired his Dream--A dream whereby haters and victims of children of haters could sit down together-like lambs and lions
This is my dream from Kuwait to Mumbai , India -and to the world in November 2008. Follow and live out the best of your religious and progressive history-not the worst.
We all need a Dream to guide us.
