While the man may look similar to the great peace maker Gandhi, it takes much more than a name or looks to claim his equal and in fact same soul. It is by works one is known. I recall from history Gandhi went on great walks to draw attention to the needs of the poor and suffering. How is riding a subway train meeting the needs of those suffering?When tyranny and oppression occurred, Gandhi sat and started fasting while weaving. why have we not heard of any fasting from him? Nor making his own cloth, which he would know how to do if he is truly Gandhi reborn? Where is the fantastic intellect, words of wisdom, boldness when needed going against huge odds?

But then, Windancer, you are missing a couple of crucial
things about Ghandi-ji: He was a common Indian man, who walked those long walks
as publicity for his political struggle, but who also lived his everyday life
the very same way, walking, working at cleaning toilets, spinning cotton, dying
his clothing, and cooking over an open fire as a common man among common men;
he WAS India, and so this simple Indian man, Mahesh Chaturvedi, who looks like Mahatma Mohandas
Karamchand Gandhi, is like millions of other Indians who also look and dress like
Gandhi-ji. Chaturvedi is Gandhi just as Ghandhi was HIM, there is NO DISTINCTION.
Men are known by their works yes, but also by their culture. Gandhi made a
conscious choice to reject the Western culture of his law school education and
to reject his suits and ties and his gold watch and starched collars in order
to embrace the very life this man Chaturvedi, pictured in these photos, lives. Another thing you are
missing is that Gandhi was not wholly a noble man, he wasn't a prophet either;
he was a cold, calculating anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist who knew how
to manipulate and mobilize masses of people to work his will and to kick a brutally
powerful empire out of his country through ruthless campaigns of physical
disobedience and of negative publicity for the oppressors. He was vain and
arrogant, as all revolutionaries need to be. He was common. He was not a god.