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Inspired by Gandhi

Washington: Barack Obama, Democratic front-runner for the U.S. Presidential nomination, sees Mahatma Gandhi as an inspiration and has a portrait of the apostle of peace in his office to remind him that ordinary people can do extraordinary things.

“In my life, I have always looked to Mahatma Gandhi as an inspiration, because he embodies the kind of change that can be made when ordinary people come together to do extraordinary things,” he wrote in a yet-to-be-published article in the ethnic India Abroad newspaper.

“That is why his portrait hangs in my Senate office; to remind me that real results will not just come from Washington, they will come from the people,” he said in the article. — PTI

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