Gandhi in Beirut…

On my walk home this afternoon, while processing the deadly violence that broke out today between Lebanon and Israel, I took a photo of the street sign opposite the gate to my residence in Beirut. President Obama paid homage to Gandhi earlier this week by visiting his memorial in New Delhi. In the visitors’ book, Obama wrote: “What Dr Martin Luther King Jr. said then remains true today:’The spirit of Gandhi is very much alive in India today. And it remains a great gift to the world. May we always live in his spirit of love and peace–among all people and nations.'” Obama’s trip to India was heralded as the beginning of a new chapter in bilateral relations between India and America.