When Chaplin Met Gandhi – A Play by Eastlea Theatre Company & Community School

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 [...]

Who Was Fritz Schumacher? by Diana Schumacher

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

Great Soul – further views about Joseph Lelyveld’s book on Gandhi

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 [...]

Killing, Denial and Manipulation – By Gladson Dungdung

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 [...]

The Indian Anti-Corruption Campaign of the Politician Anna Hazare

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 [...]

The Gandhi Foundation Annual Gathering 2011

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 [...]

The Gandhi Foundation Annual Report 2010 – 2011

Report from the Chair for 2011 Over the past year the Foundation has forged some very exciting new partnerships, leading to a series of new events and projects. Following on from an fascinating presentation by photographer Robert Wallis and anthropologist and campaigner, Felix Padel, on the plight of tribal people in Orissa and Jharkhand at [...]

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

“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 [...]

A Reply to Andrew Roberts’ Review of Joseph Lelyveld’s Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India

A new book on Gandhi by Joseph Lelyveld has caused a stir even in the popular press in the UK and has been banned in the state of Gujarat in India. Among the reviews, one by well-known historian Professor Andrew Roberts expresses a very negative view of Gandhi. Antony Copley of the Gandhi Foundation, and [...]

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