Obama Invokes Gandhi, Whose Ideal Eludes Modern India - nytimes

NEW DELHI — Not long after Barack Obama was elected president, the United States Embassy in India printed a postcard showing him sitting in his old Senate office beneath framed photographs of his political heroes: the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln and the great Indian apostle of peace, democracy and nonviolent protest, Mohandas K. Gandhi. -- Obama Invokes Gandhi, Whose Ideal Eludes Modern India