What Happened at The Gandhi Foundation Multifaith Celebration 2012

Posted on February 8, 2012 by gandhifriends

The Gandhi Foundation Multifaith Celebration Review at St Ethelburga’s on 30th January 2012 By Mark Hoda, Chair & Trustee of The Gandhi Foundation It was really heartening to see such a large audience gather at St Ethelberga’s on a cold January evening. They heard  though provoking reflections on the environment and sustainability from a range [...]

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Who Was Fritz Schumacher? by Diana Schumacher

Posted on November 25, 2011 by gandhifriends

Who Was Fritz Schumacher? by Diana Schumacher E F Schumacher, the economist-philosopher, was born 100 years ago this year. The following article is edited from a longer paper written for the Schumacher Society in 2008. Ernst Friedrich (Fritz) Schumacher was an unlikely pioneer of the Green Movement. He was born in Bonn in 1911, studied at Oxford [...]

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What Would a Gandhian Society Look Like? – by George Paxton

Posted on January 19, 2011 by gandhifriends

Much of Gandhi’s constructive programme was based on village India where the majority of Indians lived (and I believe still do). However, in the West, and increasingly throughout the world, most people live in urban centres. This, along with changes in society brought about by rapid technological developments perhaps require some adaptation of Gandhi’s ideas. [...]

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Doing Small Things With Great Love – by Bill Palethorpe

Posted on December 19, 2010 by gandhifriends

With as always (but particularly in our age of 24 hour news coverage) so many negative stories making the headlines is it any wonder that people increasingly feel powerless? Some decide not to get up in the morning whilst others turn to a hedonistic life. Well friends, as many Gandhi followers know, we all have [...]

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Major Victory for Dongria Kondh Adivasis Against Vedanta’s Mining Plans

Posted on September 9, 2010 by gandhifriends

Jairam Ramesh, India’s Minister for Environment and Forests, has handed a major victory to campaigners working to protect the Niyamgiri Hills in Orissa from planned bauxite mining by the British-registered company Vedanta. Activists in the region had faced violence and intimidation from police and armed gangs. The campaign, using which included Intellectual Satyagraha type methods [...]

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Book Review – Mahatma Gandhi and the Environment

Posted on August 8, 2010 by gandhifriends

Mahatma Gandhi and the Environment: Analysing Gandhian Environmental Thought T N Khoshoo and John S Moolakkattu The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI Press) 2009 ISBN 978 81 7993 223 0, pp152 Few books on Gandhi and the environmental implications of his thought have so far appeared. It is only in recent decades that we have [...]

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Searching for Justice and Peace in Eastern Central India – by Felix Padel

Posted on July 12, 2010 by gandhifriends

People outside India as well as inside it are becoming aware that there are thousands of local movements of people trying to save their land from being invaded and taken over by big corporations, and the contractors, subcontractors, NGOs, media firms, biofuel and seed companies, banks, hedge fund/private equity fund investors and others who serve [...]

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Mahatma Gandhi and Environment Protection – by Anupma Kaushik

Posted on June 3, 2010 by gandhifriends

Mahatma Gandhi never used the words environment protection however what he said and did makes him an environmentalist. Although during his time environmental problems were not recognized as such however with his amazing foresight and insight he predicted that things are moving in the wrong direction. As early as in 1909 in his book Hind [...]

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Increasing Equality by Matthew Bain

Posted on March 28, 2010 by gandhifriends

According to Lord Griffiths, the Conservative peer and Vice-Chairman of investment bank Goldman Sachs “we have to accept that inequality is a way of achieving greater opportunity and prosperity for all”. Has he hit on a clever, counter-intuitive truth ? No, he is just plain wrong. In their book The Spirit Level, Richard Wilkinson and [...]

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The Problems of Progress – by J S Mathur

Posted on December 29, 2009 by gandhifriends

Conferment of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Al Gore and Rajendra K Pachauri, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has focused discussion on the calamity that the human race faces as a consequence of climate change. Dr Pachauri remarks: “Something should be done immediately to mitigate the threats of global warming which [...]

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