Team Blitz India
NEW YORK: James Lawson, the black civil rights activist who come to India in order to study non-violent protest and also served as chief strategist to Dr Martin Luther King Jr, has died at the age of 95.
Lawson, a Methodist minister, learned Mahatma Gandhi’s principles of civil disobedience and taught them to protesters opposing racial segregation in the US. Through his workshops, he instructed countless activists on how to passively resist horrific violence and threats from the police and angry white mobs in order to expose the immorality of racism. King repeatedly praised his methods, calling him in a speech the day before his assassination one of the great “noble men” of the black struggle in America.
Consulate fetes Team India
Padam Shri Dr Sudhir Parikh snagged a picture with cricket great Virat Kohli at a welcome reception at the Indian Consulate in New York on June 10. Fresh from a victory against Pakistan in the T20 World Cup match, Team India was greeted by Indian-American fans invited by Consul General Binaya S Pradhan and India’s Acting Ambassador Sripriya Ranganathan. Dr Parikh is the Chairman of Parikh Worldwide Media and ITV Gold, which together are one of the largest Indian-American media outlets in the US
