An archival recording found by the staff of All India Radio quotes Civil Rights activist Martin Luther King Jr as saying Gandhi “embodied in his life certain universal principles that are inherent in the moral structure of the universe, and these principles are as inescapable as the law of gravitation.” The recording was made a day before he left India in March 1959. The recording dated 9 March 1959 is available on All India Radio at the website http://www.indianembassy.org/newsite/press_release/2009/Jan/MLK on All India Radio.mp3. The transcript is also available on the Embassy of India in Washington’s website at http://www.indianembassy.org/newsite/press_release/2009/Jan/17.asp Invited by then Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, King along with his wife Coretta and biographer Lawrence Reddick, arrived in Mumbai on 9 February 1959, and traveled to New Delhi and several other cities over the next four weeks. The 50th anniversary of that historic journey is being commemorated this month with a visit to India by King’s son, Martin Luther King III; members of the US Congress, including Representative John Lewis who is the last surviving speaker from the 1963 March on Washington; Clayborne Carson, editor of several volumes of King’s papers; jazz musician Herbie Hancock; and others. This State Department–sponsored tour will include two musical performances by Hancock plus a special tribute by Indian musicians.
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