The cardboard Gandhi
This 17-foot cardboard sculpture of Mahatma Gandhi is the work of Joseph DeLappe, a professor at the University of Nevada.
It is currently on display in the main lobby of the University of Ulster's Belfast campus.
I tweated this picture of the sculpture today, just before presenting a special A Level Results edition of Talk Back from the university's Board Room.
Joseph DeLappe has also produced a virtual version of the Gandhi sculpture on Second Life.
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Does Gandhi come in a flat pack kit.
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Recycle in the red kerbie, I think.
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It is a wonderful and accurate picture of Gandhi....
=Dennis Junior=
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"It is a wonderful and accurate picture of Gandhi...."
And a wonderful metaphor by being made out of cardboard. Ghandi, the modern day Hindi prince of peace, the patron saint of India. Except India whether it likes it or not is at war. At war with China having been invaded by them. At war with Pakistan and Islamic extremism over Khashmir and other issues including inter-religious strife within its borders. At war between classes, a legacy of its past caste system and similarly at war with women. And in the war between the USSR and the civilized world, the most generous thing you could say for it was that it stood on the sidelines, often siding with the tyrannical USSR. So much for its supposed moral superior high ground. Thirty-five years ago, it began to build hydrogen bombs, a response to the threat from China so it said. Only a few years ago, it seemed headed for nuclear war with Pakistan, its mirror image smaller evil twin. Now what do you supposed Ghandi would have said to all of that?
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