TS,Friday 7 October 2011
Millions of people around the world paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on Oct 2, his birthday. To propagate the ideals of this great man, I propose that the movie “Gandhi” be screened every Oct 2.
The most profound part of the movie to me was when a distraught and remorseful man who wanted to atone for killing a Muslim boy in sectarian conflict, approached Gandhi.
His reply is embedded in my mind as “Go find a boy who has lost his parents in the mayhem, make sure he is a Muslim, and raise him as one”.
Imagine it were done; the boy would surely have grown up to be a great Muslim, raised by a Hindu.
Gandhi has showed that a human being, however bad, is still capable of accomplishing great things.
People of different faiths may take different paths and adopt different practices but all of them believe in an Almighty.
YS Chan
Kuala Lumpur
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