Teri c mcluhan biography of mahatma gandhi

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, or Frontier Gandhi, has always posed an equal challenge to both cynics and optimists. Optimists were hard put to explain why this should not be regarded as a stray miracle. Teri C. It also raises the bar on an old and complex question — how may we be realistic about non-violence as a method of political action.

Teri C. McLuhan, Director/Producer/Writer of THE FRONTIER GANDHI: BADSHAH KHAN, A TORCH FOR PEACE, is an international award-winning filmmaker.

Born into an aristocratic Pashtun family in , Ghaffar Khan was drawn into the struggle against the British rule at an early age. He grew up in the Khyber Pass region, where bloody tribal feuds had been a way of life for many centuries. By the time Ghaffar Khan was a young man, the Pashtun tribes had been fighting the British rule with guns for over half a century.

It was partly the repeated failure of these violent revolts that set Ghaffar Khan in another direction. He did not discover non-violence through Mahatma Gandhi but he often said that his friendship with the Mahatma reaffirmed faith in this way of life.

The documentary is the work of filmmaker and writer T.C. McLuhan, daughter of the Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan, who spent 21 years to bring the.

The life of Khan can change and will challenge many readers in the Middle East. Having found scores of these soldiers of non-violence — some of them over a hundred years old — McLuhan brought them together, probably for the first time in decades. Many showed up in their old uniforms of red-coloured home spun cloth. For the Pashtuns, red is the colour of courage and sacrifice.

Local spinning of yarn and weaving of cloth was a crucial element of the Khudai Kidmatgar — since self-sufficiency in the basic needs of life was an important value for them. Detailed interviews with the aged Khudai Kidmatgar bring alive both their dogged determination and the torture they suffered in British jails.