Burma’s opposition leader will spend one week touring India, where she
will deliver the Jawaharla Nehru Memorial Lecture on Nov. 14.
After nearly a gap of 40 years,
she will visit the country where she attended school and lived as a young woman
with her mother, Khin Kyi, who was appointed Burma’s ambassador to India in
1960.
Suu Kyi is also expected to
travel out of Delhi during her visit but the exact itinerary has not yet been
finalized.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
personally invited her to give the lecture when he met her in Rangoon earlier
this year. Suu Kyi received the Jawaharlal Nehru award for international
understanding in 1992.
Suu Kyi studied at the Convent of
Jesus and Mary School in New Delhi and graduated from Lady Shri Ram College in
New Delhi with a degree in politics in 1964. She continued her education at St
Hugh's College, Oxford, earning a BA degree in philosophy, politics and
economics in 1969.
In September, while speaking at
Columbia University in New York City, Suu Kyi spoke about the influence of Mahatma
Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru as among her “greatest sources” of inspiration.
Suu Kyi said Gandhi, civil rights
activist Martin Luther King and her father and “political mentor” Aung San were
all men of principles, and she read works by them to keep herself disciplined
when she was placed under house arrest by her country’s military dictators.
“Gandhi is somebody really phenomenal. I think
you must all read his works, the more you read Gandhi, the more impressed you
are by who he was and what he was,” Suu Kyi told the students.
“You must remember that change
through nonviolent means was not ever thought of before Gandhi. He was the one
who started it, he was the one who decided that it is possible to bring about
revolutionary change without violence,” she said.
Suu Kyi said she “felt a little
bit closer” to Nehru since she had a similar education as he had, having been
educated in London.
Nehru had also been a personal
friend of her father’s and given the Indian independence movement had taken
place around the same time as the Burmese movement for freedom, there were
“very close links” between the leaders of the two countries, she said.
Mizzima News
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