11-02-2005, 10:35 PM
<b>Brit Hindus revive Bapu's non-violent resistance</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->LONDON: British Hindus are to take the politics of Gandhian non-violent resistance to a new level by sending thousands of unstamped letters to the country's postal department to "clog up the system".
It is part of an ingenious protest against Royal Mail's refusal to withdraw one of this year's controversial new mother and child Christmas stamps depicting a Hindu couple worshipping the Baby Jesus.
The stamp, which carries a nearly 400-year-old painting currently hanging in a Mumbai museum, goes on sale across the UK (on Wednesday) and is priced so that it would mainly be used on post destined for non-European Union destinations such as India. .............<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
It is part of an ingenious protest against Royal Mail's refusal to withdraw one of this year's controversial new mother and child Christmas stamps depicting a Hindu couple worshipping the Baby Jesus.
The stamp, which carries a nearly 400-year-old painting currently hanging in a Mumbai museum, goes on sale across the UK (on Wednesday) and is priced so that it would mainly be used on post destined for non-European Union destinations such as India. .............<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->