Saturday, June 12, 2010

Passive Resisters

As the football World Cup kicks off in South Africa, here is an article from The Mint which reveals the footballing history of the Indian migrants in South Africa and Gandhi's use of the sport in that country to promote his ideas on resistance and protest.

http://www.livemint.com/2010/06/11204317/When-Bapu-kicked-the-ball.html?h=A3


More Links:
http://gandhiphilately.blogspot.com/2010/03/chile-1974-gandhi-ffc.html
http://www.dnaindia.com/sport/report_fifa-world-cup-2010-kicking-out-apartheid_1392420-all

1 comment:

Suresh Ghattamaneni said...

Interesting.. !!! something i'm unaware of .. ofcourse many.. :)