From the Editor-in-Chief
India Today Editor-in-Chief Aroon Purie talks about Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary and how India's independence in 1947 came largely through Gandhi's insistence on peaceful, non-violent 'satyagraha'. He also talks about the relevance Gandhi's views hold in a rising economy with over 1.3 billion people.
Introducing Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the recent diaspora event in Houston, Texas, where Vaishnava Jana To was sung in a medley with Amazing Grace, a US Congressman quoted Mahatma Gandhi and his definition of democracy-'something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.' The invocation of the Mahatma at the spectacle designed to felicitate the Indian PM was subliminal-Gandhi was
