Joining Angela to narrate the third and final installment of Initiative Radio's salute to the Mahatma Gandhi, is Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya a practitioner of both conventional and Ayurvedic medicine.
In this final hour we learn of Gandhi's ceaseless political and personal struggles on the road to a bitter-sweet victory for Indian independence from Great Britain.
Among his personal hardships was further imprisonment, the death of his closest colleague and also the death of his wife Kasturbai. His greatest political defeat came on August 15th, 1947 - the day India became independent. Gandhi had spent a lifetime making great sacrifices to see this day but it came with the hefty price tag of even greater Hindu-Muslim disunity and the establishment of a separate Muslim nation called Pakistan.
As the show draws to a close, we hear a moving rendition of Prime Minister Neru's radio address to India, announcing Gandhi's demise at the hand's of a pistol wielding, Hindu extremist. We then examine Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's implementation of the Gandhian principles in America's civil rights struggle - most evident in the Montgomery bus boycott. The recording of Dr. King's "We Shall Overcome" speech is played in this broadcast, to illustrate how two great men who never met each other, succeeded in uplifting and inspiring people in their respective countries and the world at large, by implementing tactics of non-violent resistance to oppression.
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