I wish there were more educational programs that promoted free admissions to such operas as satyagraha so as to encourage people from all parts of life to go beyond just the art and go into the message. In this case, that would be of activism, which is something that is not as encouraged for young people today. Gandhi is indeed an amazing figurehead of great ideas but he was not the only Indian role model to which Indians today draw their inspiration from. From Deepak Chopra to Tagore, Indianms are as diverse in their varied cultures as their spices. I'm excited to hear that such a wonderful opera like this is being done in New York today!
Farrah Ashline
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Your opera traces Gandhi
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s ideas from Tolstoy to Martin Luther King. Do you think his philosophy can work today in the Mideast, in Tibet, with global terrorism?
They are the only ideas that can—and will—work. Even generals are now saying force is not the answer. In Iraq, we see the disaster of the Bush administration's utter lack of understanding of how history works. They've turned that country into a living nightmare. It's hard to be optimistic, but we can be inspired by Gandhi and King. Any positive force of social change—Bishop Tutu, the Dalai Lama—is Gandhi's heir.
Gandhi used boycotts to great effect. Should we boycott the Olympics?
Absolutely. The Olympic Committee must; the Chinese were given the honor of presenting the Games on the basis of their agreement to respect human rights, and they've begun a genocide. They must be censured, and if the Olympic Committee doesn't do so, individual countries—starting with the United States—must do it. Human values are shared through sports; people can come together. The Olympics should be a model of our behavior—they should not be given away to murderers and despots. But that story is not yet over.
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