George talks to President of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed

Maldives is a country of two thousand islands off the southwest tip of India. Mohamed Nasheed, a former pro-democracy activist, is the country's president. Nasheed is definitely a man on a mission. Maldives is the lowest nation on the planet sitting only five feet -- that's one-and-a-half metres -- above sea level. But here's the thing, the sea levels are rising; you can blame climate change for that. That means Mohamed Nasheed is leading a country that is, literally, sinking. It's debatable whether Maldives will even be around at the end of this century.

Mohamed Nasheed, of course, wasn't always in charge. Back when he was protesting for greater democracy in Maldives, he paid a big price for his activism -- 12 arrests and a total of six years in jail, with 18 months of that in solitary confinement. Amnesty International also took up his cause and called him a "Prisoner of Conscience." His detractors preferred to call him an opportunist who hogs the limelight.
But this man that people call President is the subject of a new film called The Island President. The film looks at how Mohamed Nasheed came to power and how he plan on saving his people -- his nation -- from disappearing under the sea.
http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/videos.html?id=2140037093

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Mohamed Ameen's services to the nation

When Mohamed Ameen returned to Male' after studying abroad there was a committee drafting a constitution and king Shamsudeen appointed him, by royal letter, to that group. He was its youngest and most intelligent member. After numerous difficulties, the constitution was completed and it was formally approved on Thursday 23 Shauban 1351 (22 December 1932). Acting under the constitution, the king gave the Minister for Trade portfolio to Mohamed Ameen, and he performed well in accordance with the practices of the time. Shortly after the adoption of the constitution, a serious dispute began between the Borah traders and the government. The Borahs ceased trading, locked up their shops and occupied their mosque and their three shop-houses. The government declared martial law. The person in charge was chief minister Mohamed Fareed Didi, who was also minister of the askariya (militia). On the second day of martial law, a small protest was organised. Fifty people from Galolhu ward gathered...

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Biography of Mahatma Gandhi

The word Mahatma means great soul. This name was not given Gandhi at birth by his parents, but many years later by the Indian people when they discovered they had a Mahatma in their midst. Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, a small state in western India. He was named Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The word Gandhi means grocer, and generations earlier that had been the family occupation. But Gandhi's grandfather, father, and uncle had served as prime ministers to the princes of Porbandar and other tiny Indian states, and though lower caste, the Gandhis were middle-class, cultured, and deeply religious Hindus. Gandhi remembered his father as truthful, brave, incorruptible, and short-tempered, but he remembered his mother as a saint. She often fasted for long periods, and once, during the four months of the rainy season, ate only on the rare days that the sun shone.

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