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Gandhi and South Africa A recent book by Joseph Lelyveld Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India was seen by some tabloid newspapers as suggesting Gandhi had latent sexual feelings towards his close friend Hermann Kallenbach. The controversy was used by the BJP Gujarat chief minster, Narendra Modi, to try to ban the [...]
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30 August, 2011 30 year-old Mangri Honhanga along with her 4 month-old son Dula Honhanga and other family-members had desperately come toRanchi the capital city of Jharkhand after travelling for more than 6 hours right from Saranda forest in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand last week with the hope of getting justice. Both the mother [...]
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I’d rather not be Anna by Arundhati Roy Click on the link below to read the original article from The Hindu 21st August 2011 http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article2379704.ece?homepage=true “While his means may be Gandhian, his demands are certainly not.” A Response by Dr Felix Padel I’ve been up since 4am, woken by hearing Arundhati Roy interviewed on [...]
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10 July, 2011 On July 5, 2011, the Adivasis of Munda Khutkatti areas – Khunti, Murhu and Arki blocks of Khunti district gathered in Kachary Maidanof Khunti situated at a distance of 31 kilometres from the state capital of Jharkhand. In fact, the Khunti district administration had given them permission to hold a rally and [...]
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How do we bring peace and justice to the dispossessed and who is responsible? Those who came to the Annual General Meeting at Kingsley Hall on 10 July 2010 were privileged to hear two presentations on the plight of the indigenous peoples of East India. The Adivasis are the tribal people of Orissa and Jharkhand [...]
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“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” -Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850), French economist ‘But are the tribals doing anything with that land?’ ‘We need the [...]
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Tradition, Continuity and Conflict in Jharkhand State An exhibition supported by The Gandhi Foundation An exhibition of photography by Robert Wallis and artwork by members of the Tribal Women’s Artist Collective from Jharkhand, North Central India 14th April – 25th June 2011 at The Brunei Gallery, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Sq, London WC1H 0XG In [...]
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31 July, 2010 After the arrival of the Monsoon, the city dwellers are enjoying the cool weather. The farmers are busily preparing their paddy fields. However, the atmosphere in the red corridor is more or less the same, a mood of anxiety, uncertainty, fear, pain and shock prevails in the region. Perhaps, one could hear [...]
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It was a July evening in Jhansi in 1945. A strong wind was blowing. A vast throng of town people, the peasants, and their families were moving towards an open piece of land near a hill. The men were dressed simply in kurta, dhoti or pyjamas while the spare figures of women were wrapped in [...]
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In an effort to review India’s emergent move into global economic dominance I thought that it might be useful to look at a few of Gandhi’s ideas of something called ‘political culture’ through the eyes of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. And indeed, Gandhi and Nehru did not have a monopoly over ideas to craft a [...]
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