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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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India, the country synonymous with Gandhi and his concept of Satyagraha or non-violent resistance, is increasingly descending into a state of violent chaos. In addition to periodic cycles of sectarian violence, and armed conflict in the border states in the country’s northeast and northwest, large areas in the ‘tribal belt’ of central India have descended [...]
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Tibet represents one of the unresolved problems of the world. On the one hand are the Tibetans led by the Dalai Lama who claim that Tibet was an independent country which was annexed by a stronger neighbour, i.e. China. They also claim that their efforts for finding a solution through peaceful negotiations are not reciprocated [...]
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Jairam Ramesh, India’s Minister for Environment and Forests, has handed a major victory to campaigners working to protect the Niyamgiri Hills in Orissa from planned bauxite mining by the British-registered company Vedanta. Activists in the region had faced violence and intimidation from police and armed gangs. The campaign, using which included Intellectual Satyagraha type methods [...]
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Mahatma Gandhi has most probably realised his ambition of attaining moksha [spiritual liberation] and is unlikely to return to earth. However, should he do so, he would be deeply disturbed by many aspects of contemporary India. He would be shocked at the corrosive corruption that has spread to all walks of life and eroded the [...]
Filed under: Gandhi, South Asia | Tagged: consumerism, corruption, equality, Gandhi, India, middle-class, morality, Naxal, poverty, satyagraha | 2 Comments »
Working Title presents: MAHADEVBHAI Tue 6th Jul – Thu 8th July @ 7.45pm Box Office: 020 8232 1010 Watermans 40 High Street Brentford TW8 0DS www.watermans.org.uk Tickets: £10 (£8 conc.) Written and Directed by Ramu Ramanathan Performed and Produced by Jaimini Pathak This is a sixty minute one man show that tells the story of [...]
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The following article was delivered as the Tans Lecture, Maastricht University, Netherlands on 13th November 2008. The numbers in brackets mark footnotes. “This lecture will divide into three parts. First, I will lay out the terms of the international consensus for resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict. Second, I will sketch Gandhi’s doctrine of nonviolent civil resistance. [...]
Filed under: Middle East, Nonviolence | Tagged: conflict resolution, Gandhi, Gaza, international law, intifada, Israel, nonviolence, Palestine, satyagraha, UN | 10 Comments »
The US House of Representatives has passed an historic Resolution recognizing Mahatma Gandhi’s influence on Martin Luther King Jr. and commemorating the 50th anniversary of the American civil rights leader’s visit to India in 1959. Passed on Tuesday 10th February 2009 with a 406-0 vote (26 abstentions), the Resolution recalls how Dr. King’s study of [...]
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Lage Raho Munna Bhai EROS DVD1212. Hindi with English subtitles. Running time 145 minutes. This film is a Bollywood comedy released in 2006, and a surprise hit sequel to a much less popular forerunner. It won thirty-six separate awards from eleven awarding bodies, grossed nearly £8 million in India alone – the highest that year, [...]
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