Showing posts with label Gandhi (Mahatma). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gandhi (Mahatma). Show all posts

21 August 2014

Gandhi in Québec city


'MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND
GANDHI
1869–1948
APÔTRE DE LA NON-VIOLENCE
ET PÈRE DE LA NATION INDIENNE,
IL DEMEURE UN MODÈLE
DE LIBERTÉ ET DE DÉMOCRATIE

"LA DÉMOCRATIE DEVRAIT
ASSURER AU PLUS FAIBLE
LES MÊMES OPPORTUNITÉS
QU'AU PLUS FORTS"

UN TÉMOIGNAGE D'AMITIÉ, DE FRATERNITÉ ET
DE COMPRÉHENSION DU PEUPLE DE L'INDE
À L'ÉGARD DU PEUPLE DU QUÉBEC

LE 2 NOVEMBRE 2006'

'Democracy should ensure that the weakest have the same opportunities as the strongest'. Ah, yes, if only.

This is a link to Fredda Brilliant's Gandhi.

4 May 2010

Mahatma Gandhi, Fredda Brilliant, and Tavistock Square, Bloomsbury: Literary London #16

On several occasions, this blog has mentioned the sculptor Fredda Brilliant - the wife of Lionel Britton's friend Herbert Marshall - and sometimes in relation to her being the sculptor of Britton's bust, which recently appeared on an online auction site. But this is the work that Brilliant (known as 'Freddie' by Britton) is most remembered for: the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Tavistock Square.