After Munnabhai, America takes to 'Gandhigiri'

Peace activists and some US lawmakers used the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks to drive home Mahatama Gandhi's message of non-violence and urged nations to push for peace and lay down their instruments of war.



On the fifth anniversary of the deadly strikes, law makers, peace activists and members of Congress gathered at the Lincoln Memorial on Monday under the aegis of the M K Gandhi Institute to push for non-violence as an effective weapon of counter-terrorism.

"We have to stop this madness and the only way is to adopt non-violence. Let us follow the path Gandhi showed us 100 years ago," said Arun Gandhi, the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi at a rally at the historic Lincoln Memorial grounds in Washington.

The rally at the historic center also coincided with the Father of the Nation's first non-violence campaign against racial discrimination in South Africa. Democratic lawmaker from the House of Representatives John Lewis took the opportunity to push for non-violence as an instrument and mechanism of foreign policy and called on nations of there world ‘to push for peace and lay down their tools and instruments of violence and war’.