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Exploiting the ‘visionary’ value of Gandhi, King and Mandela

Feb 09, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
The great Mahatma Gandhi and his self-styled disciples, The Rev. Martin Luther King and our beloved ‘Madeba’, Nelson Mandela, all of whose ‘visions’ served to transform their respective societies and eventually the world were unique ‘visionaries’ and transformational leaders par excellence! There is no doubt about their self-less, almost ‘God-like’ image and contribution to humanity which live on forever in the minds of people all over the world.
It is in that context that I was outraged when I became aware of a local advertisement advertising “Optical” supplies & services by using inappropriate metaphorical comparisons of their mundane, money-making ‘eye-correcting’ and ‘lens-crafting’ services with the immortal, virtually divine ‘visions’ of our three ‘prophets’ whose lifetime works enabled the world to see life differently. This should be roundly condemned in the same way we condemn those who recently ‘traded’ the Mandela name and image for cheap publicity and material gains.
Nowrang Persaud

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