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To show true devotion to Gandhi we must (In his words) Step Down From Our Pedestals and go and live with the people who are suffering and experience their hardships and their sorrows. This means in the words of Vivekananda going to the POOR. ..... I…
on Thursday
Riccardo your email was for me wonderful....magical....beautiful. You say when you were younger, but to me you speak the words of a young man. We are all young and alive if we have self belief. The words of Vivekananda are with me constantly..." Tak…
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I love your enthusiasm and your passion… It reminds me when I was much younger… Last 25 years of my life I spent conducting a similar experiment in a mountain community in the western italian Alps. It was Vinoba Bhave, when I had the priviledge to m…
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In regard to the life and work of Mahatma Gandhi I am a / we are an
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I am totally committed to awakening the world to Gandhi's methods by actual practise on the ground.
My methods are to get down from my pedestal and go to the POOR and UNDERPRIVILEGED to be able to EXPERIENCE their hardships and sorrows.
My / our projects, events, campaigns, research, publications
My current project is to set up Cooperatives for women in order to give them employment and a dignity that would bring to them and their families a way out of their misery.
I have also a close tie with people who run schools for the underprivileged in India.

My campaigns to date are Walking to raise Awareness of Gandhi.
2005 - Walked in Gujarat 75th anniversary Dandi Yatra.
2008 - Walked in Assam 3 weeks for the underprivileged.
2008 - Walked and visited Schools in and around Ahmedabad for Gandhi Awareness - 3 weeks
2008 - Walked Queensland Australia for 5 days for World Peace ( I lived on $2 per day for the 5 days) In this Walk I had the happiness of 3 of my close friends from Assam Walking with me.

Future Project
In March/April of 2009 I am returning to the North East of India to Walk for the underprivileged. We will be visiting the following States - Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Meghalaya, Jorhat Assam, Guwahati Assam. In this project I will have my friends from Assam Walking with me.
I am / We are member of the following institution(s)
Mahatma Gandhi Awareness
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3/6 12th Avenue
Palm Beach
Queensland Australia

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A Swadeshi Economy....Village Uplift Industries

I have a dream to start a NEW economy for women which will compete on the open markets in direct competition with products made by employees of factories presently operated by small business owners or companies for the purpose of PROFIT to a business owner or a company and its shareholders.
The reasoning behind the obvious future success of such a venture is that the products will be able to be sold at a very competitive price advantage because our motivation is not one of profit for a company o… Continue

Posted on January 11, 2010 at 5:23am — 3 Comments

Garvin Brown

The Poor and Underprivileged

I read a lot of comments about Gandhi's philosophy.
Gandhi saw the word philosophy as being pretentious and said that all he had done was to conduct experiments in both Truth and Non Violence on as large a scale as possible, he admitted that sometimes he had made mistakes but that he had learned by those mistakes and most often would do Penance for those mistakes. He always held fast to the fact that TRUTH can never be sacrificed or compromised for any reason whatsoever.
People are suffering in… Continue

Posted on January 9, 2010 at 12:41am — 3 Comments

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At 6:41pm on August 4, 2010, Riccardo Gramegna said…

At 9:24am on August 4, 2010, Arya Bhushan Bhardwaj said…
Dear Garvin, You are absolutely correct, thanks for your valuable comment.
At 6:28am on January 11, 2010, Arya Bhushan Bhardwaj said…
Dear Carvin, So nice of you to become my friend. I appriciate your way of thinking, God bless you and your noble work. You will be glad to know that I am comming to your country in th month of May 2010. I would like to meet you if you are willing. I will be arriving in the month of may most probabily on 3rd or 4th May in Melbourn . Hope to hear from you. My mission is Gandhi and yurveda. Blessings and love.
At 7:02pm on August 22, 2009, Aunty Kamala said…
God Bless You, Garvin! You might check out the ncnworld.org, which has some of the same ideas as yourself.
Please add me as your friend.
Aunty Kamala
At 9:36pm on February 3, 2009, rkpatel said…
Dear GB,

Thanks for the message.

We-humans are VIOLANT,because WE ARE EXTREMELY-SELFISH.

Anyway if you would like to read my views in my email-messages,then please kindly forward your email-address to my email-address namely,rkpatel@
paradise.net.nz

Wish you good-luck on your mission..!!
At 10:53pm on January 23, 2009, Sushma Webber said…
Dear Garvin,
Good to know you have been in NZ. Yes it is a lovely sunday today, no wind, jsut a bit of clouds.
You have done a lot to promote values taught by Gandhiji. Wish you all the best for you Walk in March-April 2009 in India.
At 6:19pm on January 13, 2009, Uttam Teron said…
Walk in North East India

Date Place
12th March 2009 Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh
16th March 2009 Nagaland
20th March 2009 Manipur
26th March 2009 Mizoram
29th March 2009 Tripura
2nd April, 2009 Meghalaya
5th April, 2009 Jorhat, Assam
9th April, 2009 Guwahati, Assam

19th April, 2009 Delhi
At 6:17pm on January 13, 2009, Uttam Teron said…
I added some of your photo in Gandhi Topia site.
Mr Thangtkhosie Haokip of Manipur is taking very much interest. He will take the walk programme in Manipur.
At 3:33pm on January 11, 2009, NISHA BALA TYAGI said…
Good,Great.Keep Going.Service to Humanity is service to God.
At 6:42am on January 11, 2009, Uttam Teron said…
Thank you so much for sending this information about Gandhi Topia. This is very nice and enough information website and networking site.

Uttam
 
 
 

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