OBAMA-GANDHI 2LST

Last month Obama had said that if given a chance he would
love to have dinner with Mahatma Gandhi.

Obama expressed his desire in response to a question from
a student Lilly during his discussion with 9th graders at
Wakefield High School in Arlington Virginia where he,
accompanied with the Education Secretary, gave a national
speech welcoming students back to school.

Obama called for students to take responsibility and to
learn from their failures so that they succeed in the end.
"Hi. I'm Lilly. And if you could have dinner with anyone, dead
or alive, who would it be," Obama was asked by one of the
students.
"Dinner with anyone dead or alive? Well, you know, dead or
alive, that's a pretty big list," Obama responded amidst
laughter. The next moment he was serious. "You know, I think
that it might be Gandhi, who is a real hero of mine,"

Obama said. "Now, it would probably be a really small
meal because he didn't eat a lot," he said amidst laughter.
But Mahatma Gandhi is someone who has inspired people across
the world for the past several generations, he said. PTI