Peace offerings

Watch Father figure Sometimes it takes an outsiderrsquos lens to document the history of a nation Thatrsquos what happened with the epic 1982 film Gandhi where the main cast and crew are largely English including the lead actor Ben Kingsley The movie is a straightup biopic on the man who sacrificed his entire life for the sake of not just the countryrsquos freedom but also to promote the ideals of nonviolence and peace It remains one of the most compelling film biographies of all time and went on to win eight Academy Awards including that of Best Actor for KingsleyLog on to youtubecom Showing their metal There is a rich history of antiwar films of which Full Metal Jacket 1987 is a hardhitting take on the USVietnam conflict It follows the journey of a war journalist Private Joker as he graduates from army training to covering the war in the Southeast Asian country The plot is divided into two halves The first revolves around Sergeant Hartman the drill instructor at the training camp who is a hard taskmaster to put it mildly The second part shows the battle on the ground and the last sequence mdash where Joker shoots dead a teenaged Vietnamese sniper mdash shows the moral conflict that soldiers in particular face and the futility of war in generalLog on to amazoncomListenU2 is an Irish rock band One for all When Irish rockers U2 ended the concert they had played in Navi Mumbai in 2019 they chose to bring the curtains down with the track One released in 1991 The reason one assumes is that they wanted to leave the audience with the message of peace and hope that the song embodies The lyrics emphasise how we are all equal as human beings despite the man made borders that we have created for ourselves The tune starts off with a soothing lilt before lead singer Bono reaches higher octaves at the end with the line ldquoLove is a temple Love the higher lordrdquo This is music thatrsquos meant to healLog on to spotifycomBob Marley A better place Itrsquos no coincidence that peace and togetherness are recurring themes in reggae music considering that the genre symbolises how white people have historically subjugated those of African origins Bob Marley of course is the biggest reggae star of all time and while he has many hits that talk about unity itrsquos one of his lesserknown tracks that truly drives the point home Itrsquos called I know a place and the lyrics contain lines like ldquoAnd there is people like you people like me People need to be free And therersquos a place in the sun Where there is love for everyone Where we can berdquoLog on to youtubecomReadKurt Vonnegut speaking at a peace rally PicsFacebook Mother of all books Kurt Vonnegutrsquos innate sense of humanism shines through in almost all his novels including SlaughterhouseFive his most famous book and the excellent Catrsquos Cradle But if you are to pick up just one title from his impressive antiwar oeuvre let it be Mother Night The novel first published in 1962 is about a man who loses his sense of identity after enlisting as an American spy working amongst Nazis The plot details the intense psychological damage that war can bring about in people even as they seek to hold on to their ideals of kindness and justice Log on to flipkartcom