New evidence uncovered about Gandhi’s assasination

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A while back Jon Stewart of the Daily Show ran a clip demonstrating how often people overuse references to Adolf Hitler when talking about some political move they disagree with.  I would like to forward that Gandhi references are similarly thrown about with reckless abandon.  Former SM heart-throb Apul (who will be performing tomorrow night at 10p.m.) brings to my attention the latest such reference:

It’s nearly a year since Tara Reid popped out of her dress at Diddy/ Puff Daddy/ P Diddy/ Puffy’s 35th birthday party – and she’s finally spoken out about Taragate.

The American Pie star promises she’s finally got her “hooters under control” and says she can’t believe the storm it caused – as if her boob “popped out and shot Gandhi”.

Tara was left blithely exposed as the cameras flashed at Sean Combs’ bash, exposing a pretty major nipple scar.

I am actually stunned that she knew Gandhi was shot but that doesn’t make the statement any less idiotic.  Here is ESPN’s Dan Patrick (DP) interviewing Dallas Mavericks (now Suns) point guard Steve Nash (SN) a few years ago:

DP: Gandhi is your hero, right? Is there a Gandhi-like player in the NBA?
SN: Gandhi-like player in the NBA? I don’t know a Gandhi-like person in the world.
DP: Well, what position would Gandhi have played?
SN: He would definitely have been a point … but you can make a case for every position, because I think the man had a lot of power. He was definitely small, so probably point guard. But I think he would have been the most versatile player in league history.

Sheesh.  Anyone have other examples?

59 thoughts on “New evidence uncovered about Gandhi’s assasination”

  1. Gandhi was short. politically i think nash is right, he would have been a point guard, because he set the table, he’d penetrate and draw the defence in, and then dish it out to others to make the bucket

    Dang Raju, I think you’re right

    In some way, Gandhi has become a standard of sorts – granted it is not the most informed standard. Look at MLK & Hitler (sorry). Let’s face it, Americans have a “thing” about old, wise colored people & their wisdom.

    Case in point, how many times have you heard “it takes a whole village to raise a child”?

    When you hear someone reference Gandhi, put your 2 cents in.

  2. Let’s not forget the biggest example of Gandhi trademarking from the “Think Different” campaign conducted by Apple a few years ago.

    I find the comments about Ghandi humorous, since they’re predictably in line with a modern myth which, if squeezed, oozes just about anything you might need, from spirituality to marketing. From what I’ve read, I think he was a very complicated, very flawed individual (who isn’t, right?). His historical impact and his guilt-soaked neuroses make for an interesting biography, if you suspend personal qualms but concerning cursory psychological exegesis. Koestler’s “The Lotus and the Robot” contains compelling, though brief, journalistic bits about Ghandi, if any of you browns are interested.

  3. cool Deepa, point taken….

    i ask bc i just saw a talk by a tibetan buddhist. he purposelly pointed out the Sardarji who was part of the Dalai Lama’s guard to the audience

  4. cool Deepa, point taken….

    i ask bc i just saw a talk by a tibetan buddhist. when showing a picture, he purposelly pointed out the Sardarji in the picture who was part of the Dalai Lama’s guard to the audience

  5. Why should you people care what tara reid says? Everybody cant always say things you like. How on earth are these comments affecting you as a person and your thoughts? When people reference something, i.e. holocaust or ghandi, they are simpling trying to relate to something everyone knows about. How does this sound.

    It was a horrible act much like the norman conquest of 1066. Kind of vague isnt it?

    Anyways I am a man of peace much like Ancus Marcius, you know the guy who resotred peace to the Roman empire for a short while, so please take kindly to my words.

  6. Raju,

    when showing a picture, he purposelly pointed out the Sardarji in the picture who was part of the Dalai Lama’s guard to the audience

    Why did he do that ?

  7. i think it was to take an opportunity to educate people on who Sikhs were and associate the Sardarji in the picture with a man of peace like the Dalai Lama. i thought it was a very class act. it was a small, modest gesture

  8. I think its the sign of the times.

    2 idiots discussing what position Gandhi would have played (Does anyone imagine he would have played this game? or any other game? Its not the future we’re trying to conjecture, its about a person that lived in the past and we already KNOW what he did which was – not play the NBA). I mean, talk about filling time with noise. Sorry if calling them idiots offends people but that’s what they look like to me with that discussion.

    To Siddhartha’s point, yeah it annoys me too that food places will call themselves Gandhi chicken shit or whatever. I guess there are multiple identical word combinations of delhi, darbar, india, palace, tajmahal etc. that appear on desi food places, they are looking to expand their reportoire. So the next stop is Gandhi. I think they need to move on to names like India “BPO” Palace, or Call Center Darbar or IT Tandoor etc. now that these words must have some co-recognition with India.

  9. U.S. TV series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” had two references to Gandhi>two references to Gandhi in Season 3. In “Anne”, Buffy says, “Hey, Ken [the evil guy], wanna see my impression of Gandhi?” She then kills Ken and says to her completely confused friend, “Well, you know, if he was really pissed off.”

    In “Consequences”, after Faith killed Alan Finch, she said, “The guy I offed was no Gandhi.”