Poignant coincidental anniversary: 11 September

You might even call it ironic like dropping the first nuclear bomb on 6 August -the feast of the Transfiguration; thus symbolically offering the world a choice of transfigurations to make paradigmatic. And yesterday, unbeknownst to most of us, another since it was the 100th anniversary of, well, read it for yourself ...

On Sept. 11, 1906, Gandhi, then a young, little-known lawyer working in South Africa, joined a meeting of fellow Indians in a Johannesburg theater to protest a proposed law that would force Indians to carry identity documents and be fingerprinted. Indians had initially been brought to South Africa as indentured workers by the British, who ruled both countries at the time. Gandhi convinced those present to resist or ignore the law — but without resorting to violence. He called the idea "Satyagraha," which literally translates as "insistence on truth."

The irony for me is that the effects of the twin towers destruction has been one of growing violence and igniting ever fresh rounds of violent reaction. We really know that it won't solve the problems and that we will have to be more constructive sometime... Gandhi's way deserves to be better known especially as he was so influenced by Jesus Christ.
Indians mark 100th anniversary of Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune:
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