World Civilian Coalition Gathers for Global March to Jerusalem

Posted on January 16, 2012 by gandhifriends

World Civilian Coalition Gathers for Global March to Jerusalem Beirut -The International Executive Committee of the Global March to Jerusalem announces the completion of the preparations for the Second International Conference where the representatives of the International Committees involved in the organization of the Global March to Jerusalem will meet. The conference will be held in [...]

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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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Book Review – Timeless Inspirator: Reliving Gandhi Edited by Raghunath Mashelkar

Posted on November 16, 2011 by gandhifriends

Timeless Inspirator: Reliving Gandhi Edited by Raghunath Mashelkar Sakal Publications 2010 HB pp369 ISBN 978 93 80571 48 5   This is a book on Gandhi that looks much more to the future than to the past. It takes the form of 45 short essays by ‘superachievers’ (almost all Indian). The idea came from the editor who [...]

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Indian Relations

Posted on October 19, 2011 by gandhifriends

India - Question for Short Debate Asked By Lord Parekh To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of economic, political and cultural relations between the United Kingdom and India. Lord Parekh: It is a great privilege to initiate this debate. Since it is a common practice to declare an interest, I begin by saying that [...]

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Killing, Denial and Manipulation – By Gladson Dungdung

Posted on September 16, 2011 by gandhifriends

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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The Indian Anti-Corruption Campaign of the Politician Anna Hazare

Posted on August 26, 2011 by gandhifriends

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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The Non-Nation – A Short Story of Racism by Javed Iqbal

Posted on May 5, 2011 by gandhifriends

“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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A Disappearing World : Ancient Traditions Under Threat in Tribal India

Posted on March 1, 2011 by gandhifriends

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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Peace and Security and Economics – by Eirwen Harbottle

Posted on June 18, 2010 by gandhifriends

George Paxton has persuaded me to share some thoughts on developing our Gandhi Foundation Trustees’ discussion on monetary reform. I am clearly no academic; merely an ordinary member of the public who has become increasingly angry over the financial mess that is causing so much misery and the injustice of handing on such toxic chaos [...]

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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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