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MAHATMA GANDHI'S AHIMSA IS INSPIRATION FOR BARACK OBAMA - WASHINGTON : Vowing to strengthen ties with the India, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has noted that the hardworking Indian-American professionals are adding to the "richness" of the US society and invited the community to join him in renewing the strength of this country. The Illinois Democrat, who is giving his party rival for presidential nomination Hillary Clinton a run for her money and hopes, recognised the major contributions of Indian-American community to the US economy as well as the fabric of the American society. Obama also wrote that he sees Mahatma Gandhi and his philosophy of ahimsa as an inspiration and has a portrait of the apostle of peace in his office to remind him that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. "In my life, I have always looked to Mahatma Gandhi as an inspiration, because he embodies the kind of transformational change that can be made when ordinary people come together to do extraordinary things," he wrote.