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Following was published on January
28, 2013 in the Times of India.
“…..Gandhi was also a world
historical figure and his death was registered across the globe. In the United States,
the eminent cartoonist D R Fitzpatrick, long associated with the St Louis Post
Dispatch, was reminded of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
“His cartoon, ‘Martyrs of Humanity’,
points to the place that Gandhi had come to occupy in the American imagination.
“One doubts very much that the
nation-state meant to Gandhi what it meant to Lincoln, but the image provokes
precisely such questions.
“Two decades later, another
assassination would shake the world. More so perhaps than any other cartoonist,
Bill Mauldin of the Chicago Sun-Times captured the poignancy of the killing of
another architect of non-violent resistance.
“In his famous cartoon, published
in April 1968, an avuncular-looking Gandhi stretches out his hands towards
Martin Luther King in a show of solidarity and says, ’The odd thing about
assassins, Dr King, is that they think they’ve killed you.’
“Men such as Gandhi, who knew
better than most the art of dying, have to be assassinated repeatedly.”
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