Surur Hoda (1928-2003)

Posted on September 7, 2008 by gandhifriends

For 25 years Surur Hoda was international secretary of the civil aviation section of the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITWF). He was also chief executive of the London-based India Development Group (IDG) and the founder of the Gandhi Foundation. A democratic socialist — he formed the India Socialist Group in London in 1960 and was [...]

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Nicholas Gillett (1915-2008)

Posted on July 10, 2008 by gandhifriends

Nicholas Gillett who died on 23 June was a worthy recipient of the International Gandhi Peace Award in 1999. In his acceptance speech he spoke about caterpillars, horse flies and bees to illustrate the need for fresh approaches to peace building. Had he been less self-effacing he might have spoken of his own background and achievements. [...]

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Mahatma Gandhi: Images and Ideas for Nonviolence – by Vijay Rana

Posted on July 2, 2008 by gandhifriends

Mahatma Gandhi: Images and Ideas for Nonviolence Vijay Rana Publisher: NRIfm ISBN: 978-0-9557026-0-0 This book is a well needed tonic for any one who believes in Gandhi’s message but suffers from intermittent bouts of despair and melancholy due to some of the absurd directions that the political world has adopted. Vijay Rana’s book should be [...]

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The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence and India’s Future – by Martha C. Nussbaum

Posted on July 1, 2008 by gandhifriends

The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence and India’s Future Martha C. Nussbaum Belknap Press of Harvard University Press pp403 29.95 euros Martha C. Nussbaum is Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. She worked for eight years (1985-93) with the Research Project of the UN World Institute for Development in Helsinki, focusing [...]

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Albert Schweitzer and Indian Thought – by Rasoul Sorkhabi

Posted on July 1, 2008 by gandhifriends

“He [Albert Schweitzer] is the only Westerner who has had a moral effect on this generation comparable to Gandhi’s. As in the case of Gandhi, the extent of this effect is overwhelmingly due to the example he gave by his own life’s work.” Albert Einstein Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), the renowned Christian theologian, philosopher, musician, physician, [...]

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Gandhi in the Mirror of Foreign Scholars – edited by J S Mathur

Posted on May 15, 2008 by gandhifriends

Gandhi in the Mirror of Foreign Scholars Edited by J S Mathur National Gandhi Museum and Gyan Publishing House 2007 ISBN 81-212-0961-7 HB pp383 Rs 720 This substantial volume contains 49 essays, written over a period of 35 years, which first appeared in either The Journal of Gandhian Studies (the older ones) or Gandhi Prasang, [...]

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Gandhi and Peace Studies – by David Maxwell

Posted on May 15, 2008 by gandhifriends

This article was first published in issue 96 of The Gandhi Way What are Peace Studies ? They describe a new academic discipline first introduced in the second half of the 20th century. Peace Studies draw on subjects like anthropology, psychology, political science and ethics, but differ from them in stating a required outcome, Peace. [...]

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Gandhi’s Diagnostic Approach Rethought – by Margaret Chatterjee

Posted on May 2, 2008 by gandhifriends

Gandhi’s Diagnostic Approach Rethought: Exploring a Perspective on His Life and Work Margaret Chatterjee Promilla and Co/Bibliophile South Asia: New Delhi  2007 pp234 Rs495   ISBN 978-81-85002-81-1 Few scholars match Margaret Chatterjee’s outstanding contribution to Gandhi studies. We are all in her debt, for example, for her Gandhi’s Religious Thought (1983) so it more than [...]

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Nonviolence and the Self-Cherishing Mind – by David Edwards and Matthew Bain

Posted on May 2, 2008 by gandhifriends

This article was first published in issue 96 of The Gandhi Way On 2nd December 2007 Media Lens were presented with the Gandhi International Peace Award by Denis Halliday, former UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator in Iraq and himself a recipient of the award in 2003.  Here Matthew Bain, a Friend of the Gandhi Foundation, asks David [...]

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2007 Peace Award – Media Lens

Posted on December 2, 2007 by gandhifriends

The 2007 Gandhi Foundation International Peace Award was presented to Media Lens. Citation Media Lens (www.medialens.org) is an online, UK-based media watch project, set up in 2001, providing detailed and documented criticism of bias and omissions in the British media. David Edwards and David Cromwell are co-founders and co-editors of Media Lens. Media Lens is [...]

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