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…

The tragedy in southern Asia continues to build as the death toll, as expected, passed 100,000 people and has now surpassed 120,000. While many countries bordering the Indian Ocean have suffered, Indonesia perhaps bore the worst with more than 45,000 dead, particularly in Aceh province near the epicenter of the quake. This DCist photo was taken this morning outside the Indonesian Embassy on Massachusetts Avenue at 21st Street NW. A news crew was preparing…