Tuesday, May 17, 2016

First morning in Dehli, India I went on a city tour and saw the second largest mosque in Asia, holds 35,000 people, and was built about 500 years ago by a Mongol ruler of India at the time.  Dramatic yet a simply built structure.  Visited Gandi's home in Dehli were he was assassinated at the climax of the British withdrawal from India and the partition of old India into Pakistan and today's India.  He was the first of the pacifist leaders that achieved their humanistic goals for their peoples without war, Mandela of South Africa and ML King back home are the other two.   Now I've been to all three of their memorials.  Inspiring!  Saw the India national government buildings which are on a dramatic Mall, remarkably similar to the US National Mall in DC between our capital, the World War ll, Washington and Lincoln Memorials.  The grandure of memorials honoring historical figures are remarkably similar in national capitals, other cities, as I was reminded visiting an Indian Mongol memorial this morning.  When eatying lunch with the guide of the tour, I was reminded that religious rituals are so similar for all the people's of earth.  Tuesday is a holyday, and not a holiday, when faithful Hindu's abstain from eating meat, fish, or fowl, just as Catholics did on fridays, except the Hindu's include fish from their abstainations.  

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