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US Congress Recognizes Gandhi

Posted on February 16, 2009 by gandhifriends

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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Film Review: Lage Raho Munna Bhai

Posted on November 8, 2008 by gandhifriends

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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Gandhian Way: Peace, Non-violence and Empowerment

Posted on November 8, 2008 by gandhifriends

Gandhian Way: Peace, Non-violence and Empowerment Celebrating Hundred Years of Satyagraha (1906-2006) Indian National Congress Published by Academic Foundation 2007 ISBN 978 81 7188 648 7 HB pp320 £34.50 This large and splendid looking book emerged from a conference held in New Delhi in January 2007. It was attended by more than 300 delegates from [...]

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Thomas Merton’s Reflections on Mahatma Gandhi – by Rasoul Sorkhabi

Posted on November 5, 2008 by gandhifriends

Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi 1948 (now sixty years ago) and Thomas Merton, a renowned Trappist monk and author, was killed in a tragic accident in 1968 (forty years ago). These anniversaries are valuable opportunities to reflect on the legacies, works and teachings of these two great men of peace. Gandhi has influenced [...]

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Treading the Gandhian Path – by Sunderlal Bahuguna

Posted on September 14, 2008 by gandhifriends

Born in a remote Himalayan village and that too in a princely state, I could know about Gandhi when I was a High School student at the age of 13. My inquisitiveness to know about a strangely dressed young man, who was dressed neither like the officers of the state nor like the poor subjects [...]

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Gandhi, Gandhism and Terrorism – by Antony Copley

Posted on November 2, 2005 by gandhifriends

Helen Steven concluded her recent Gandhi Foundation Annual lecture by raising the question, how would Gandhi have dealt with today’s terrorism?(1) If she raised the question too late to formulate any kind of sustained answer, given the strong emphasis in her lecture on the need for dialogue, she suggested that Gandhi would certainly have wanted [...]

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Gandhi: Politics and Spirituality – by Antony Copley

Posted on July 10, 2005 by gandhifriends

Just where does Gandhi’s central concept of nonviolence fit into the overall Gandhi world view? Our understanding of Gandhi has normatively been shaped by the role he played as an antagonist of racial prejudice in South Africa and of colonialism in India. We see him as an exceptional politician in some of the great power [...]

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Understanding Nonviolence: from Tactical Nonviolence to Satyagraha – by Mark Shepard

Posted on December 8, 2003 by gandhifriends

What exactly do we mean when we say we’re committed to nonviolence? Unfortunately, different people mean different things and are often not even aware of the differences. The purposes of this piece are to give an idea of the range of meanings possible, to improve our ability to identify the types of commitment we encounter, [...]

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Tolstoy and Gandhi – by Christian Bartolf

Posted on January 6, 1997 by gandhifriends

This essay first appeared in ‘Gandhi and the Contemporary World’, edited by Antony Copley and George Paxton, published by the Indo-British Historical Society in 1997. Undoubtedly the dialogue between Gandhi and Tolstoy was not only a correspondence of letters but also a correspondence of minds. Gandhi’s reading of Tolstoy’s writings can be dated back to [...]

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