it's Gandhi, not Ghandi
June 25, 2010 - 9:19am
Re: Social change strategies and the G8/G20
Today's poll misrespresents the activities of some of the people named and also spells Gandhi's name wrong. Also, all the leaders listed are male.
a thread for a spelling mistake of a name ??
-- wait till there is a poll about Khrushchev or Ahmadinejad !
Thanks for catching the spelling error, krishna. We've alerted the editor. I also agree with your criticism--where are the women movement leaders? Malalai Joya? Emma Goldman? Rosa Luxemburg? Sojourner Truth?
Hi krishna,
We've corrected the typo and added some diversity to the options. Thanks for your criticism and for keeping rabble.ca on its toes!
"Mo-han-das Kar-am-chand Gandhi," as my grandad used to say, with emphasis on each syllable. I'm not quite sure why.
"Here is a brief outline on the life of Mahatma Gandhi. Read about the life history of Mahatma Ghandi."
How can an Indian website can so confused about the spelling?
Perhaps because his name was a Gujarati name, and also a Hindi name. Born in a Gujarati-speaking area of Bombay Presidency (now in Gujarat), his father, Karamchand Gandhi (1822-1885), served as the "Diwan" (Prime Minister) of Porbander state, a small princely state. The name is written in Gujarati script, a variant of Devanāgarī script. Voiced aspirated stops (a stop with breathy-voiced release) are different consonants than unaspirated stops, and have different characters in those scripts. English transliterators generally write such consonants as "gh," "dh," or "bh." But since there is no such sound in English, this is just a convention. If you read Indian newspapers online, you will see they are fairly casual about transliterations. So are Pakistani newspapers.
This makes it tricky to google for such names. You have to try several English variants to catch all the references. Are some "right" and others "wrong?" Well, they're all wrong. They're in a foreign script, by South Asian standards. Get used to it.
Great catch krishna.....and thanks for spotlighting it.
.. want to indicate again here, what I said to catchfire in another thread about him needing to have his feminist goggles ALWAYS on.
And it is not only catchfire who needs to, but the rest of the male contingent here at rabble/babble who think they are oh so "progressive".
Here is a hint men, you are NOT progressive in the least, if you are still desperately grasping on to your sexism and not always on the watch for equity rights and truths.
And women, pandering to the continued male dominance is not going to make any changes in society, for our equality rights, and the best example to support this is the fact that in this day and age, at this site, such a thing should never, ever, have happened.
I want candhi!
And women, pandering to the continued male dominance is not going to make any changes in society, for our equality rights, and the best example to support this is the fact that in this day and age, at this site, such a thing should never, ever, have happened.
Perhaps the severity of an innocent and inconsequential poll is being overstated...
Actually, it's: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી