For today’s Monument feature, we thought we’d do another installment in our Embassy Row series, which so far has included the Letelier/Moffitt memorial and statues honoring Ukrainian icon Taras Shevchenko and Czecho-Slovak president Tomas Masaryk. This time, though, we decided to ease off the obscure figures for a moment and talk about the Mahatma himself, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
Now, is it really necessary for DCist to summarize his life and accomplishments? Of all the foreign leaders honored with a statue in the District of Columbia, M.K. Gandhi is surely one of the best known. Unlike his neighbors, Gandhi is familiar to all as an inspiration for Martin Luther King Jr. (who is himself strangely without a statue here) and the Academy Award® winning film starring Ben Kingsley and Candice Bergen.
