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Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Why India visit was a pilgrimage for the 'King of Hope'
FirstpostThe walk to, in and around the ‘Stone of Hope’ in Washington D.C. in the United States is an endearing ‘pilgrim’ spot of why and how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to be. One is, of course, to understand Mahatma Gandhi and his cause of non-violence in and through his contemporaries, two, understand the distinctions that arose through caste-based discrimination, how far India has come, and three, to raise his profile as a ‘king of hope’ on the international stage, especially through the lens of Asia, America and Africa as an ambassador to weed out any form of man-made divisions. This leads us to the second reason for King’s visit to India; which was to understand the fissures in Indian society caused due to caste-based discrimination. King also emphasised the importance of temple-entry movements that Gandhi spearheaded besides studying the impact of the ‘bhoodan’ also called the ‘self sufficient village’ movements under Vinoba Bhave and Jayaprakash Narayan and how this led to India’s overall social cohesion initiatives back then.
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