MAHATMA GHANDI

GHANDI

THE MAHATMA

Ghandi is a person who excels in a second life. He begins where most of us begin, in the shadows of another and lives half his life in pursuit of things that occupy most of us until death.  By the time he came into his own, he had lived in three continents. I think his perspective of life was shaped by his experience and by a deep religious discipline that he was not born with. He tempted fate to kill him many times, but it was a religious bullet that set free what the British Empire could not contain. The power of the human spirit mobilized 200 million people and galvanized the world to pay attention to the detail of "birthright". It is impractical to think that a half-starved man could change the world, or that it is possible to use the power of the human spirit to free people from generations of oppression. But that is just what happened when Ghandi was done. In each one and everyone is the power to change the world – If I be the change I want to see.

Allan Bukusi, 2012