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When Chaplin Met Gandhi A play by Eastlea Theatre Company & Community School Saturday 11th February 2012 2.30pm & 6pm The Joan Littlewood Theatre, Eastlea Community School Pretoria Road, Canning Town, London, E16 4NP (Nr Star Lane DLR or Canning Town / West Ham Tube) Tickets: Adult £4, Child £2 from Eastleigh School Reception Tel: 0207 [...]
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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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The AGM Annual Gathering Event – Gandhi in Noakhali 21st May 2011 at Kingsley Hall, Powis Road, London Film screening: rare footage of Mahatma Gandhi’s visit to Noakhali during the 1946 riots Testimonials from Gandhi’s visit; Shaheen Westcombe MBE talks about her father’s archive Poetry reading and speeches Tour of Gandhi’s room at Kingsley Hall [...]
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How should we remember the Battle of Plassey Day on 23rd June every year ? Since 2007 Brick Lane Circle has been organising annual events – conferences, East India Company Walks and poetry readings – to explore important issues relating to the English East India Company’s rule over Bengal. The first conference was held in [...]
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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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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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Director: Sir Paul Stephenson Script: Sir Ian Blair Producers: The Metropolitan Police Troupe: “The Darth Vader Clones” Extras: Thousands of Unwitting Citizenry The Revolutionary Committee re-named 1st April this year as “Financial Fools Day”. By chance, your own newly-appointed Theatre Critic chose to review the Premiere of “The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse”, a play [...]
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Gandhi Foundation: Why does Gandhi interest you in particular? Christos Papachristou: I believe that Gandhi is a unique figure of leader and “fighter”. the thing that makes him special is not only the philosophy and methodology of nonviolence that he represented — other figures have represented the same, like Martin Luther King, Tolstoy etc. — [...]
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When I jumped into the Learners’ Pool for the first time, not knowing to hold my nose, the bubbles filled my nose and mouth. Almost 40 years later, I remember it still. However, it is what happened outside The Baths that I remember more vividly, brought to mind quite often by photographs or a chance [...]
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