Through the good offices of former Gandhi Foundation trustee and current patron Diana Schumacher the Foundation was honoured to have Satish Kumar deliver this year’s Annual Lecture at the Nehru Centre on Thursday 28th September. Satish started the lecture by recounting how he started his adult life as a Jain monk but at the age […]

This was the title of this year’s annual multifaith gathering which took place on 28th January at Kingsley Hall where Gandhi Ji had stayed in 1931 while attending the Round Table Conference.  The title had been chosen some time ago but, in view of the drastic change in US policy, it could not have been […]

Dr Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, and former Archbishop of Canterbury, delivered this year’s Gandhi Foundation’s Annual Lecture on 1st October in St Martin-in-the-Fields Church, London. In introducing the lecturer to the audience the Gandhi Foundation’s President, Lord Bhikhu Parekh, said Lord Williams was one of the finest thinkers and human […]

Committee Room 2 in the House of Lords was crowded on 4 November 2015 for the presentation of the Peace Award to Bike for Peace, a Norwegian-based movement using cycling to promote the idea of a nuclear-free world.  The Gandhi Foundation president, Bikkhu Parekh, welcomed everyone and there was a special welcome for Godric Bader, […]