Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. January 7, 1957
Birthday: January 7
Gandhi was important for another reason as well: his country was suffering under the British Empire, and yet he was leading a very singular kind of resistance to it. At the time he was speaking about the violence in Europe, his followers were in jail as prisoners of the British government.
source: "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke" by James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.
topic: Country, Government, Europe, British Government