<p>Martin Luther King Jr. spent a month traveling through India in 1959 to pay homage to Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi was one of King's biggest influences, and King was well known in India as an American disciple of Gandhi's teachings. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks to Meghan Weaver from the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, who tells us more about King's historic "pilgrimage."</p>

Martin Luther King Jr. spent a month traveling through India in 1959 to pay homage to Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi was one of King's biggest influences, and King was well known in India as an American disciple of Gandhi's teachings. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks to Meghan Weaver from the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, who tells us more about King's historic "pilgrimage."

'To India I come as a pilgrim'

<p>Host Marco Werman and his team of producers bring you the world's most interesting stories that remind us just how small our planet really is. The World, the radio program, is heard each weekday on over 300 public stations across North America.</p>

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Host Marco Werman and his team of producers bring you the world's most interesting stories that remind us just how small our planet really is. The World, the radio program, is heard each weekday on over 300 public stations across North America.

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