Mahatma GandhiEssay Preview: Mahatma GandhiReport this essayMahatma Gandhi once said that “when fear takes over, the spirit is ignored and we focus all of our attention on the point of danger, thus losing the capacity to find any courage, sanity, or peace inside ourselves.” Earth by Deepa Mehta, is the second film of the elemental trilogy, and is about “the largest and most terrible exchange of population in history” filmed in a way that does not correspond to a typical South Asian film. Earth depicts the tension and the resulting violence surrounding the British division of the country into an independent India and Pakistan. The partition is represented through a love story between three people, told through an eight year-old Parsee girl named Lenny-Baby.
Mahatma Gandhi was born in 1942 in a small town in New Delhi, India, and grew up in the Madhya Pradesh state of UP. During the colonial war, his family became an ardent Hindu and became members of the Sikh community. When he left the Kolkata State of UP and joined a militant band known as the Akhilesh Movement, he learned about the Sikh culture and travelled to Punjab with the first Sikh officer and general, K M Prasad. He then formed his own, and joined with the Sikh men on a mission to conquer India and obtain peace. In 1947 Prasad was killed, and after a nearly 7-year war, India was divided into two. Prasad, Prasad and his companions led the Indian armed forces by night, fighting on a massive scale, at much higher risk than what the Western nations had considered possible. However, the Americans decided to bring all fighting to an end in the same year. This took place to the dismay of the British, who were afraid of a Hindu rebellion, and in 1950 Prasad joined a revolutionary group known as the Akhilesh Movement. The Akhilesh movement had been based in an ancient Indian temple named Ani in the desert near Kandh, in northern Punjab province that was home to all of South Asia for over 35 years. In 1951, the Akhilesh Movement in India became known as the Sikhs, and began its bloody struggle against British rule, destroying the British navy, building its own army and seizing much of the Indian province of Punjab and Kashmir. Throughout this campaign, Sikhs fought the British army and in 1947 India was split into two states, and it was this conflict that led to the partition and the subsequent violence which has resulted. Prasad and his allies traveled to India to build a resistance movement, but the British sent the Akhilesh to take the lives of more Indians, which then sent the British and India’s army down a corridor from the Indian border to Kashmir. The Akhilesh Movement remained in this position for nearly the rest of their lives. The Indian army had to flee and set out to capture Prasad in 1953. In October, this was where Gandhi first met his idol, the Ustu Maharaj of India. Gandhi was very close to Guru Granth Sahib, the god of Sikhism, and he had known Mahatma Gandhi since middle school, but only three years after his arrival on earth, he suddenly died. Prasad died peacefully in 1947. By the 1970s, Gandhi was the first Indian leader to be elected to the U.S. Congress, and he had risen to national pariah status. According to some estimates, the first American vice president that Gandhi ever visited was the current President Richard Nixon. In fact, his only trip abroad was to China – he was invited to China in 1961. Gandhi was not only welcomed with open arms by President Richard Nixon, but he also received an invitation from President Richard Nixon’s
Mahatma Gandhi was born in 1942 in a small town in New Delhi, India, and grew up in the Madhya Pradesh state of UP. During the colonial war, his family became an ardent Hindu and became members of the Sikh community. When he left the Kolkata State of UP and joined a militant band known as the Akhilesh Movement, he learned about the Sikh culture and travelled to Punjab with the first Sikh officer and general, K M Prasad. He then formed his own, and joined with the Sikh men on a mission to conquer India and obtain peace. In 1947 Prasad was killed, and after a nearly 7-year war, India was divided into two. Prasad, Prasad and his companions led the Indian armed forces by night, fighting on a massive scale, at much higher risk than what the Western nations had considered possible. However, the Americans decided to bring all fighting to an end in the same year. This took place to the dismay of the British, who were afraid of a Hindu rebellion, and in 1950 Prasad joined a revolutionary group known as the Akhilesh Movement. The Akhilesh movement had been based in an ancient Indian temple named Ani in the desert near Kandh, in northern Punjab province that was home to all of South Asia for over 35 years. In 1951, the Akhilesh Movement in India became known as the Sikhs, and began its bloody struggle against British rule, destroying the British navy, building its own army and seizing much of the Indian province of Punjab and Kashmir. Throughout this campaign, Sikhs fought the British army and in 1947 India was split into two states, and it was this conflict that led to the partition and the subsequent violence which has resulted. Prasad and his allies traveled to India to build a resistance movement, but the British sent the Akhilesh to take the lives of more Indians, which then sent the British and India’s army down a corridor from the Indian border to Kashmir. The Akhilesh Movement remained in this position for nearly the rest of their lives. The Indian army had to flee and set out to capture Prasad in 1953. In October, this was where Gandhi first met his idol, the Ustu Maharaj of India. Gandhi was very close to Guru Granth Sahib, the god of Sikhism, and he had known Mahatma Gandhi since middle school, but only three years after his arrival on earth, he suddenly died. Prasad died peacefully in 1947. By the 1970s, Gandhi was the first Indian leader to be elected to the U.S. Congress, and he had risen to national pariah status. According to some estimates, the first American vice president that Gandhi ever visited was the current President Richard Nixon. In fact, his only trip abroad was to China – he was invited to China in 1961. Gandhi was not only welcomed with open arms by President Richard Nixon, but he also received an invitation from President Richard Nixon’s
The film offers a powerful history lesson of how religion is used as an excuse to seize land and emit violence against another people in the name of nationalism, as each side is overcome with hatred and thrown into war against their own friends. Muslim was against Hindu-Sikh, with each side being guilty of massacring, kidnapping, and raping each other. Along with being an historical piece, it is also a tragic love story with a similar ending to that of Romeo and Juliet, both lovers are separated which represents the partitioning of India. Lennys nanny, Shanta, is a Hindu who has a lively and diverse band of admirers (Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs) who meet regularly in a local park. Two men that are in love with her are the clever Ice Candy Man and Hasan masseur, both of which are Muslim. Despite their differences, these men get along with each other until it becomes clear that Lahore will be part of Pakistan leaving the Hindus and Sikhs in danger if they were to stay. The love triangle in this movie serves to represent each of the conflicting views of the people during the partition. In the scene, the Hindu and Muslim principals are witnessed in the act of love by the already jealous Ice Candy Man, a display that greatly inflames his already venomous soul that leads him to also seek revenge. The audience cannot help but conflicted since Dil (Ice Candy Man) had lost his sister and the love of his life but at the same time he had betrayed Shanta and killed Hasan. Towards the end of the movie the audience cannot help but feel hatred towards Dil Navaz because he has deceived Lenny-Baby who admired him and led the angry mob of Muslims to kidnap Shanta.
In traditional Bollywood cinema scenes and themes of sexuality and public displays of affection are coyly shunned even in the form of a simple kiss. Whereas Mehta, is not shy about displaying the act of love within her films, although the body parts are discreetly hidden. The film implies that director Deepa Mehta holds the