- The most eye-catching parody is the non-violence, the passive resistance Gandhi had asked for. You can see this in the clip, where Gandhi is involved in a fight, in which he beats his disputants and at last wins against them.

After this scene he drives with a racy car, what he never would have done, because he always has gone  on foot if it would have been possible.

Thirdly his ascetic way of life is parodied, because he is presented as a womanizer in the clip, with two women on each of his side.

Finally the Indian traditions are parodied, because they show Gandhi eating some meat of a cow, which is forbidden in the Hindu religion, because the cow is an holy animal there.

In the documentary “In search of Gandhi” an interviewed states that Gandhi would grab a gun, if he would live nowadays. He justifie his statement in saying that Gandhi’s ideas and principles are not up to date anymore. The society has changed within this long time of Gandhi’s absence. He is of the opnion that nowadays you are respected if you have success. Successfull people have the power to decide about what to do in India. In India 80% of the population belong to the caste of untouchables, so 80% of the population of India have nothing to say and to decide.

The Interviewed also says, that the power just went over from the Britains to the rich social class. So everything is more or less like in the past. That’s why he thinks that even a so steadfast person like Gandhi would not withstand and grab a gun to defend himself and his ideas.

2. Gandhi’s first public meeting

3. the first fasting scene

4. the mass murder of the Idiens by the British

5. the Salt March

6. the separation of India and Pakistan and the following second fasting scene

7. Gandhi’s arrival in Bombay

8. the funeral scene

- it seems as if abortion is a very common thing in India. You can see this in the story when Maji tells the narrater that “all the midwives in town would come to me to offer their services”. (p. 127 ll. 30). Maji herself was a midwive too, so she also offers her help in the form og an abortion.

- it is said that an abortion often is “the only way to save people from dishonour and suffering” (p.129 ll. 8), because illegitimated children are proscribed (verpönt)

- In India many girls are aborted purposeful (up to 10 million in the last two decades and 500.000 per annum),  because boys continue the family honour, usually earn money and care for their parents when they’re old, whereas the girls leave the home when they marry and on top of that have to be equiped (jmd mit etw ausstatten) with a dowry for the marriage.

- abortions are more often made in wealthy regions than in meager ones

- new measure of the government: pregnant women have to sign, that they won’t ask for the baby’s sex, so that they haven’t the chance to abort the baby if it is a girl

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There is one word that the narrater is often called after, the word “hijra,” whose meaning she knew from one of Olivia’s letters (it means transvestite). On one walk, Inder Lal and the narrater walk past a group of hirjas, who dance and sing, dressed like women but, she thought, with sad faces. That is why she wondered if they’ll be paid for their work. Inder Lal isn’t interested in this  performance, because it is ‘a very common thing’ to him.